Those 87 bars in 2026
- 18
- still there
- 39
- replaced
- 30
- gone
Most common features
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137 E. 55th St.
No license found in 2026
The space is almost above reproach. A restaurant, bar, lounge all decked to the nines with Arabian flair. There's even a game room with a pool table, poker board, and a PS3. Unfortunately enjoyment of it requires the mental exercise of blocking out the Hamptons mate or die crowd, and forgeting you're drinking a $9 Corona.
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1069 2nd Ave.
No license found in 2026
There are two distinct spaces at this wine bar. A standup area serving cheese and wine and adjoining DJ lounge. Skip the sparse lounge with an odd $2 fee to sit down, and head straight for the wine bar where you can size up the real draw here, the huge selection of Artisanal cheeses on display.
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218 E. 53rd St.
Closed; now Hudson Malone
A bi-level sports, beer, and miserbale DJ bar. A decent place to watch the game - drinks are reasonably priced and booths have personal flat screens. On weekend nights the scene is ugly. We're talking clasic Bon Jovi and Apple Pucker shots ugly.
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245 E. 55th St.
A different business is licensed at this address: Draught 55
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Blarney Stone (Midtown East)Pick
710 3rd Ave.
Closed
Efficient Irish bar keeps, absurdly cheap and tasty food, and $4 for 22oz beers draws everyone from day laborers to traders to this half deli half dive bar.
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141 E. 45th St.
No license found in 2026
Sushi and Sapporo at one of the few Japanese spots in the city where Westerners are in the minority.
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Brother Jimmy's (Grand Central)
109 E. 42nd St.
Closed; now Hyatt Grand Central New York
Comfort food and cheap beer remain a winning recipe at all the locations of Brother Jimmy's. The locations are so similar if you drink enough of their infamous Swamp Water you just might forget which one you're at.
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15 Vanderbilt Ave.
Closed; now The Campbell
The kind of place where you get something more with your $14 martini than an olive - a dash of 50's glamour and a garnish of genuine honest to goodness class.
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219 E. 59th Street,
No license found in 2026
A popular and unobjectionable after work destination. 8 Flat screens, pool, darts, bar food and imperial pints.
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1076 1st Ave.
A different business is licensed at this address: Jean Claude
Sexy lounge/restaurant delivers a harem style romantic setting replete with belly dancers and tents.
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978 2nd Ave
No license found in 2026
Come here to watch rugby, or soccer, or Australian rule football, or maybe even an Irish breakfast, otherwise it's best not to come here at all.
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236 W. 54th St.
No license found in 2026
Tapas and wine bar with a roof top and a good selection of craft and Belgian beer in bottles.
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304 E. 48th St.
Still pouring
Top of the line karaoke machines and quality microphones mean you can capture ever missed note of Livin' on a Prayer in stunning fidelity. You can take over any of the 16 private rooms for $8/pp per hour.
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687 Lexington Ave.
Still pouring
New renovations at this 44 seat lounge and bar have spruced things up at the Fitzpatrick Hotel. It's now a perfectly sufficient place to have a nightcap before returning to your room.
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The GrandPick
41 E. 58th St
No license found in 2026
You can't help but feel like a rockstar dining at 4am in this sexy 8,000 square-foot subterannean lair. Just be careful not to drink like one or those $20 cocktails could make for a very expensive night.
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Grand Central Station
Still pouring
An underground temple to eating and imbibing below Grand Central.
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303-305 E. 53rd St.
No license found in 2026
This polyglot karaoke bar has a library of 20,000 English songs, 20,000 Chinese songs, 6,000 Spanish songs, and 30,000 Japanese songs. It also boasts 3 private rooms, 33 TVs, and your typical midtown bar acrylic and accent light aesthetic.
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842 2nd Ave.
Closed
Depending on your perspective either a solid Irish bar and restaurant becomes a Karaoke wasteland Thursday through Saturday, or an otherwise boring Second Avenue mcIrish bar becomes an Abbatastic paradise.
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La GrenouillePickRestaurant
3 E. 52d St.
Closed; now Quanjude
Practically a platonic ideal of elegance. There's a good reason why La Grenouille has been around for over 50 years
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327 Bowery
Closed; now Bowery Palace
Gazing up at the 20,00 bottle tower of wine in the center of Le Cirque's new wine bar you might find yourself reminded of the Tower of Babel which is oddly appropriate given the linquistic gallimaufry that the weak dollar has created at what is one of Manhattan's priciest restaurants.
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511 Lexington
Closed; now The Stayton Room
A 15,000 SF club in the Radisson Hotel basement ckub draws huge crowds with Latin music and Asian décor.
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21 E.47th St.
Still pouring
An Irish pub popular with the after work crowd at JP Morgan, Deutcshe Bank, and Credit Suisse.
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986 2nd Ave.
A different business is licensed at this address: Sweet Annie's Bar And Eatery
The trendy décor of this bi-level lounge is a departure from the frat bars that populate this stretch of 2nd Avenue, but the crowd and the music fit right in.
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151 E. 50th St.
Closed; now Empire Steak House
Nikki's clubs have been successful in South Beach, St. Barts, and Cabo but will this white on white aesthetic and copacabana theme translate to NYC?
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729 3rd Ave.
Closed; now Rosie Dunn's
There's live traditional Irish music every Saturday and Sunday night at this midtown pub. Best yet you can bring your kid brother or jailbait girlfriend because they card at the bar.
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221 E. 58th St.
No license found in 2026
Named for Oscar Wilde the decor of this midtown gay bar leans more heavily toward the 1980's than 1880's. No matter a friendly vibe and an outdoor patio space make OW an oasis in East 50's.
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961 2nd Ave.
A different business is licensed at this address: Napoleon's Pizza/The Stag's Head Cornerstone Taver
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225 E. 44th St.
Still pouring
As one of the few dive bars in an area ruthlessly homogenized by after work crowds this benign bar almost feels edgey in comparison. You can get a bucket of 5 Sam Adams for $15 and pount of wings for $10 and there are 22 TVs to catch the game on.
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922 3rd Ave.
A different business is licensed at this address: The Naked Pig
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Redemption Cocktail Lounge and Cafe
1003 2nd Ave
A different business is licensed at this address: Tipsy Turtle
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SakaguraPick
211 E. 43rd St.
Still pouring
Through the lobby and follow the small gold sign down, to find the largest sake selection in NYC.
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127 E. 47th St.
Still pouring
A location just blocks from JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Suisse helps create an atmosphere so debauched that some patrons have been known to not just loosen the knot of their ties, but even take them off completely.
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937 1st Ave.
No license found in 2026
This Sushi joint would be nothing special, but for the cheap and tasty rolls and amazing $12 all you can drink special!
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974 2nd Ave
No license found in 2026
Named for the Guinness Brewery in Dublin this pub has 11 beers on tap and serves tradional Irish food.
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1015 2nd Ave.
No license found in 2026
Every weekend these three floors of utterly bland and unremarkable décor fill with humanity to match. As the owners of these countless collared shirts and water bras attempt to mask their own banality with endless rounds of Apple Pucker and Jack and Coke, neighborhood clinics ready themselves for the deluge to come. If that's your cup of tea may we also recommend Turtle Bay, Naked Lunch , and Depo-Provera .
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Top of the Tower (Beekman Tower)
3 Mitchell Pl.
Closed; now Ophelia
Some of the best views to be found anywhere in the city make all other considerations a distant second at this deco piano lounge on the top of the Beekman Tower.
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Ty Lounge (Four Seasons Hotel)
57 E. 57th St.
Still pouring
The lobby lounge of the Four Season's Hotel has a roaring fireplace and makes a mean Manhattan, of course the $20 price tag is pretty mean as well.
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Uncle Charlie'sPick
139 E. 45th St.
Still pouring
An after work gay bar in midtown? Although the second floor location and masked windows look seedy from the outside, the bar within is clean and attractive. There's the ubiquitous piano lounge, a separate bar area, and even a plant filled back garden.
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125 E. 54th St.
Closed
Swank basment lounge draws an after work and pre-theatre suit and tie crowd to yell over 80's music and swill $13 cocktails.
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40 E. 58th St.
Closed
This 18 and over gay bar draws a young gaysian and latino crowd and the old white men who love to buy them drinks, tokens of affection, cars…
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Wheeltapper Pub (Fitzpatrick Hotel)
141 E. 44th St.
Still pouring
Upscale Irish pub in the Fitzpatrick Hotel serves consistent if somewhat pricey comfort food to an after work and tourist crowd.
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541 Lexington Ave.
Closed
Bar as Rube Goldberg device - manager hires bartenders with big boobs, attracting traders with big wallets, which in turn brings in Upper East Side girls with big aspirations.
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845 United Nations Plaza
A different business is licensed at this address: Un Plaza Grill
A strange place indeed. The one thing Trump can be counted on to delivet, conspicuos consumption, is surprisingly lacking. Sure, they serve a $50 cocktail topped with actual gold, but no one walking into this beige on beige bar would have any clue that it cost over 2 million dollars to build.
Already closed by 2009
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B1 Drink ClubClosed by 2009
139 E. 45th St.
A different business is licensed at this address: Uncle Charlies
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CB Six BarClosed by 2009
252 E. 51st St.
A different business is licensed at this address: Napoleon's Pizza/The Stag's Head Cornerstone Taver
A dress shirt and tie after work crowd packs this modest sized bi-level bar with a truly enormous international beer selection.
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Divine Bar EastClosed by 2009
244 E. 51st St.
A different business is licensed at this address: Karizma Lounge
Yet another bar bites the dust because it's rent doubled.
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Doherty's PubClosed by 2009
218 E. 52nd St.
A different business is licensed at this address: Niall's On 52nd
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FizzClosed by 2009
137 E. 55th St.
No license found in 2026
Moneyed euros mingle at this formerly members-only club and restaurant.
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Karaoke DuetClosed by 2009
256 E. 49th St
A bar by this name is licensed at 304 E 48th St
3rd floor karaoke parlor.
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LightClosed by 2009
155 E. 54th St.
A different business is licensed at this address: Relais De Venise L'entrecote
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Mica BarClosed by 2009
252 E. 51st St.
A different business is licensed at this address: Napoleon's Pizza/The Stag's Head Cornerstone Taver
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Paradise ClubClosed by 2009
50 W. 33rdSt.
No license found in 2026
A crummy strip club not to be mistaken for the long deceased world famous Harlem jazz club of the same name.
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Tammany HallPickClosed by 2009
218 E. 53rd St.
A different business is licensed at this address: Hudson Malone
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Thady Con'sPickClosed by 2009
915 2nd Ave.
No license found in 2026
One of the best Irish pubs in New York was closed (temporarily??) in December 2005, because the construction site behind it caused structural damage to the building forcing its closure by the city of New York.
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The Villard (New York Palace Hotel)Closed by 2009
24 E. 51st St.
Closed; now Lotte New York Palace hotel