Farrell's Bar & Grill, Windsor Terrace

Overview

Regulars there remember when they started serving women, not that they serve many, perhaps they don't like the idea of leaving lipstick marks on the giant styrofoam cups the beer's served in.

History

Thirty-two ounces of community institution

At Farrell's the beer came by the quart: in 2019, when the bar had a reputation for the best and coldest beer in town, Mike O'Donnell had been filling 32-ounce cups for 23 years¹. When we listed it, we noted that the cups were giant and styrofoam.

It opened at 215 Prospect Park West in 1933, the year Prohibition ended². In 1965 it was Eddie Farrell's bar³, and Danny Mills, Timmy Horan and Jimmy Houlihan would eventually buy it³. Houlihan, bartender and owner, who went by Hoolie, died in 2022⁴.

In 2026 NY1 called Farrell's more than a neighborhood watering hole: a community institution⁴. It's still at 215 Prospect Park West⁵, pouring from noon to midnight at the start of the week⁵, ninety-three years after it opened².

Sources

Researched October 2026.

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