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Best Outdoor Bars in NYC
Beer gardens, backyards, boats and sidewalk tables — with the happy hour windows that actually exist.
Twelve of these run a real happy hour — Black Rabbit and King Tai go from open until 8pm, every day.
- 18 verified bars
- 12 with a real happy hour
- drinks from $4
- longest window: 7 hrs
The best outdoor bars in NYC right now are Black Rabbit in Greenpoint ($6 house lager from open until 8pm, every day), Gowanus Yacht Club (about $4 a drink, cash only), Bohemian Hall in Astoria ($6 mugs and $16 pitchers at the oldest beer garden in the city), Watermark Bar on Pier 15 (half-price oysters all day Monday) and Baylander in West Harlem ($6 beer on a decommissioned Navy ship). Twelve of the eighteen here run a real, verifiable happy hour — and where a window came from a third-party listing rather than the bar itself, we say so on the card. One correction: Pilot, the schooner bar at Pier 6, sank on 3 July 2026. It is still on several guides.
The short version
- Cheapest drinkGowanus Yacht Club — about $4, cash only, mid-April to late October.
- Best daily dealBlack Rabbit in Greenpoint: $6 house lager from open until 8pm, every day.
- Longest windowGreenwood Park and Kokomo, both noon–7pm. Seven hours.
- Works in winterLoreley has heaters; Radegast has a retractable roof. Almost nothing else does.
- GonePilot, the 1924 schooner at Pier 6, sank on 3 July 2026. Several guides still list it.
At a glance
The deal, the days and the window. Tap a number on the map to place it.
| Bar | Happy hour | Days | Window | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Rabbit | $6 lager; $10 boilermaker | Daily | open–8pm | $$$ |
| Loreley Beer Garden | $2 off drafts; $16 steins | Mon–Thu | 5–7pm (10pm Mon–Tue) | $$$ |
| Watermark Bar | $8 beer; 50% off oysters | Mon–Thu | 4–7pm | $$$ |
| Vinateria | $5 beer; $1.75 oysters | Tue–Sun | 5–7pm (4pm weekends) | $$$ |
| Greenwood Park | $2 off drafts, wine, cocktails | Mon–Fri | noon–7pm | $$$ |
| Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden | $6 mugs; $16 pitchers | Daily | No published HH | $$$ |
| Radegast Hall & Biergarten | 1L steins $19–$21 | Daily | No published HH | $$$ |
| Evil Twin Brewing NYC | $6 select drafts | Mon–Fri | 4–7pm Tue–Thu | $$$ |
| Gowanus Yacht Club | ~$4 average drink, cash | Seasonal | Apr–Oct | $$$ |
| Union Pool | Taco truck in the yard | Daily | 4pm–2am (4am Fri–Sat) | $$$ |
| Blinky’s Bar | $2 off all locals | Mon–Thu + Sun | 4–7pm & 12am–close | $$$ |
| The Waylon | $6 whiskey of the day | Mon–Thu | 4–7pm | $$$ |
| Baylander Steel Beach | $6 beer; $11 cocktails | Tue–Fri | 3–5pm | $$$ |
| The Frying Pan / Pier 66 | ~$7 bottled beer | Daily | 11:30am–11pm | $$$ |
| Grand Banks | Oysters; martinis | Daily | 11am–12am (seasonal) | $$$ |
| Kokomo | $10 cocktails; $7 wine | Wed–Fri | noon–7pm | $$$ |
| King Tai | $1 off wine, drafts, wells | Daily | open–8pm | $$$ |
| Dante West Village | $10 martinis | Daily | 3–5pm | $$$ |
Map: where these 18 spots are
North Brooklyn is the density. The waterfront options run from Tribeca up to West Harlem.
Pins are numbered to match the table above – tap any pin for the detail and directions.
The best outdoor happy hours
Five verified windows, ranked by what you actually save. More in best bars in NYC.
Black Rabbit On now
The most reliable outdoor happy hour in north Brooklyn, and the venue publishes it in its own words: cheaper drinks every day until 8pm — Black Rabbit Lager $6, a lager pint plus a straight bourbon shot for $10, and a $10 cocktail du hour. Regular prices are $9 for most craft beers and $8 for the house lager, so the discount is real rather than decorative. Picnic tables in a fenced back garden. The honest caveat, and it changes the plan: the garden shuts at 10pm even though the bar runs to 2am (4am Fri–Sat). And happy hour runs from open — 4pm Mon–Fri, but 2pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Loreley Beer Garden On now
The rare outdoor room that is not a summer-only proposition — the venue’s own site says the garden has heaters in the winter and fans in the summer, and it is modeled on a Cologne Brauhaus with communal tables built by a German brewery furniture maker. The deal: $2 off draft beer, $2 off wine by the glass, $6 cans, $12 flights, $16 one-litre steins, $29 pitchers. Runs to 10pm Monday and Tuesday and to 7pm Wednesday and Thursday. The honest caveat: the official copy publishes only end times, not a start — The Infatuation puts the start at 5pm. Confirm at the door if the start time matters to you.
Watermark Bar On now
Published by the venue, not scraped: happy hour Mon–Thu 4–7pm and Fri 2–6pm with $8 beer, $10 canned cocktails, $12 select wine and $60 jumbo margarita carafes — on a full deck out over the East River. The move most people miss is the separate oyster hour: 50% off oysters all day Monday, Tue–Thu 4–5pm and Fri 2–4pm. Monday all day is the best oyster window on this page. The honest caveat: it is a Seaport tourist magnet and it knows it. Go on a weekday, not a Saturday, and note the Friday window starts and ends earlier than the weekday one. More in our oyster happy hours guide.
watermarkny.com · See our oyster happy hours in NYC
Vinateria On now
The best-value outdoor happy hour above 110th Street, and it is not close. The venue publishes the schedule itself: Tue–Fri 5–7pm and Sat–Sun 4–7pm, at corner sidewalk tables on Frederick Douglass at 119th. The pricing — $1.75 oysters, $5 beer, $10 wine, $13 cocktails, small plates $7–$12 — comes from The Infatuation rather than the venue’s own site, so we are telling you where it came from. The honest caveat: confirm the oyster and beer prices at the table, and note it is closed Mondays. More of the neighborhood in our Harlem happy hours guide.
Greenwood Park On now
The largest outdoor drinking space we verified anywhere in the city: over 13,000 square feet in a converted gas station and mechanic shop, with 60 taps, three bocce courts and a fireplace. The happy hour is $2 off select drafts, beers, sangria, wines and cocktails, Mon–Fri noon to 7pm — a seven-hour window, tied for the longest on this page. Open to 2am Sun–Thu and 3am Fri–Sat. The honest caveat, twice: that noon–7pm window comes from a third-party listing rather than Greenwood Park’s own site, so confirm it. And it is big and loud on a summer weekend — if you want a conversation, come on a weekday afternoon.
greenwoodparkbk.com · See our Park Slope happy hours
Beer gardens
Where the litre stein does the work instead of a discount. See Astoria happy hours.
Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden
The oldest beer garden in New York, built in 1910 and still run by the Bohemian Citizens’ Benevolent Society, which dates to 1892 — and the prices have not caught up with the rest of the city: $6 mugs and $16 pitchers of Czech and Slovak lager, under the trees, with traditional beer-garden food. Live music, comedy, karaoke on Thursdays, and a proper Oktoberfest with a stein hoist. The honest caveat, and we are not going to invent one: a tourism listing mentions “happy hours” but no days, times or prices are published anywhere, so we are not printing a happy hour here. At $6 a mug you do not need one.
Radegast Hall & Biergarten
The retractable roof is the whole argument: open-air Austro-Hungarian beer hall in July, closed up and still pouring litre steins in January, which almost nothing else on this page can do. Published draft prices (0.5L / 1L / pitcher): Stiegl Goldbrau 11 / 21 / 31, Spaten Original 10 / 19 / 28, Weihenstephaner Helles 11 / 21 / 31. Bottles $7–$28. Live music five nights a week, no cover, no reservations for regular service. The honest caveat: no happy hour is published anywhere on the site or the menus — the value here is the litre and the pitcher, not a discount window. And it is genuinely loud on live-music nights.
radegasthall.com · See our Williamsburg happy hours
Evil Twin Brewing NYC On now
Six-dollar drafts of beer you cannot get anywhere else — the brewery’s own description is smoothie-style sours, oak-aged lagers, pastry seltzers, hazy IPAs and barrel-aged stouts, and that is exactly what it tastes like. The happy hour windows differ by day: Mon 4–9pm, Tue–Thu 4–7pm, Fri noon–6pm. Ridgewood hours are Mon–Thu 4–9pm, Fri–Sat noon–midnight, Sun noon–10pm; there is a second taproom in DUMBO at 43 Main St. The honest caveat, and plan around it: there is no kitchen. Eat first, or take whatever truck is parked outside. The happy hour is single-sourced to The Infatuation — confirm at the bar.
Backyards and patios
Picnic tables, string lights and a grill in the corner. Pair with Williamsburg happy hours.
Gowanus Yacht Club
The cheapest outdoor drink we verified anywhere in New York: roughly $4, cash only. A Carroll Gardens backyard of brightly painted picnic tables, a half-barrel grill going in the corner, an awning for the sun and the rain, and beer, hot dogs and not much else. Time Out’s hours are Mon–Fri 4pm–midnight and Sat–Sun 2pm–midnight. There is no formal happy hour because the whole place is priced like one, which is a better arrangement than any discount window on this page. The honest caveat, and there are three: cash only, no website, no phone, and it closes for the winter around late October, reopening mid-April.
Union Pool
The patio, the taco truck and a band in the back room — a converted pool-supply store that set the template every other Williamsburg backyard has been copying for fifteen years. The yard’s food is El Diablo Tacos out of a truck: tortas, elote and tacos off a rotating menu. Hours Mon–Thu 4pm–2am, Fri 4pm–4am, Sat 2pm–4am, Sun 2pm–2am. No reservations. The honest caveat, and we are declining to print the deal we found: a third-party listing claims a Mon–Fri 5–9pm happy hour with $3 Miller High Life, but Union Pool publishes nothing on its own site or menus. Ask at the bar rather than arriving expecting it.
Blinky’s Bar On now
The only bar on this page running its happy hour twice in one night. The venue’s own copy: Monday through Thursday 4–7pm and again from midnight until close, plus all day Sunday, with all local beers $2 off — which makes the second window the best late-night outdoor deal in Williamsburg. The bar’s whole identity is high-school nostalgia and the drinks are named for yearbook superlatives, in an ivy-covered backyard off Grand Street. The honest caveat: The Infatuation lists the window as Mon–Fri 4–8pm with different pricing. Trust the bar’s own hours, which is what we have printed here.
blinkysbar.com · See our Williamsburg happy hours
The Waylon On now
A country-western bar with a deep American whiskey list and a little back patio of picnic tables, where the happy hour is Mon–Thu 4–7pm: $6 whiskey of the day, $7 select draft beer, wine and well drinks, $10 boilermaker. In a neighborhood full of rooms trying very hard, this one is not performing anything, which is most of its appeal. The honest caveat, two of them: the happy hour is single-sourced — we could not fetch the venue’s own site — so confirm the window before you build around it. And the patio is small; it fills fast on a warm Thursday. More nearby in our Hell’s Kitchen happy hours guide.
On the water
Three boats and a pier. All seasonal, all worth it. See best rooftop bars for the other kind of view.
Baylander Steel Beach On now
You are drinking on the deck of a US Navy vessel — harbor utility craft YFU-79 in Vietnam, converted to a helicopter landing trainer in 1986 — with the George Washington Bridge on one side and the skyline on the other. Happy hour is published by the venue as Tue–Fri 3 to 5pm: $6 beer, $11 cocktails, $8 wine, $25 beer and seltzer buckets, $11 snacks. Hours Tue–Wed to 9pm, Thu 9:30pm, Fri 10pm, Sat–Sun from noon. The honest caveat: ending at 5pm is brutal on a weekday — this is a leave-work-early move, not an after-work one. Closed Mondays, and the deck is fully exposed to weather.
baylander.nyc · See our Harlem happy hours
The Frying Pan / Pier 66
A former Lackawanna railroad barge, the Lightship Frying Pan (on both the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places), a vintage rail float bridge and a 1900s caboose, all tied up at Pier 66 — and a roughly $7 bottle of beer drunk standing over the Hudson at sunset. It is the biggest, loudest, least apologetic summer bar in Manhattan and it is not trying to be anything else. Mon 11:30am–10pm, Tue–Thu to 11pm, Fri–Sat to 11:30pm. The honest caveat: no happy hour, no reservations, and the official site warns hours move on short notice with the weather. On a hot Saturday the line for a drink is long. Check before you go.
fryingpan.com · See our Chelsea happy hours
Grand Banks
The Sherman Zwicker, hand-built in 1942 and, in the operator’s own words, the largest wooden vessel in New York — a museum-quality schooner tied up at Pier 25 with the whole Hudson in front of it. Oysters and a martini on the deck at sunset is one of the genuinely great New York drinks, and the 2026 season opened 13 April. Mon–Fri 11am–midnight; Sat–Sun brunch 9am–2pm then service to midnight. The honest caveat, plainly: no happy hour is published and this is a splurge rather than a deal. It is walk-in-heavy with long waits at sunset, and it leaves the water for the winter — check before you trek down.
grandbanks.nyc · See our Tribeca happy hours
Sidewalk tables and covered patios
The everyday version — a table on a good block. More in best outdoor dining in NYC.
Kokomo On now
Noon to seven is a seven-hour happy hour, tied for the longest window in this guide, and it is $10 select cocktails and $7 select wine at a Caribbean restaurant with a lot of outdoor tables along a tree-lined stretch of Kent Ave, a short walk from Domino Park. For a $10 rum drink on a summer afternoon in North Williamsburg, that is a genuinely good number. The honest caveat, and it is two things: it runs Wednesday to Friday only — there is no weekend version — and no beer price is published. The happy hour is single-sourced to The Infatuation, so confirm at the table before you order a round.
kokomorestaurant.com · See our Williamsburg happy hours
King Tai On now
$1 off wine, draft beer and well drinks, daily until 8pm, at a sidewalk table on one of the better blocks in Crown Heights — Bergen between New York and Nostrand. Average cocktail runs around $9, and there is a warming drawer of tamales behind the bar, which is the detail that tells you what kind of room this is. Open Mon–Thu 5pm–2am, Fri 5pm–4am, Sat 3pm–4am, Sun 3pm–2am. The honest verdict: a dollar off is a modest happy hour and we are not going to pretend otherwise — come for the sidewalk and the block, not the discount. It opens at 5pm Mon–Thu, so there is no weekday afternoon option.
Dante West Village On now
A $10 martini in the West Village is the cheapest verified martini in this batch by a distance, and it runs every day from 3 to 5pm under an outdoor canopy of greenery and flowers on Hudson Street. This is the group’s second room after the Macdougal Street original, and the drinks-making is the reason to come rather than the setting. The honest caveat, and it is two things: a two-hour window ending at 5pm makes this an early drink, not an after-work one — and “covered” is not “heated.” Nothing published confirms heaters, so do not plan on this one in November. See our best martinis in NYC guide.
dante-nyc.com · See our best martinis in NYC
NYC outdoor bars: FAQ
Which NYC outdoor bars have a happy hour right now?
Twelve of the eighteen in this guide. The strongest: Black Rabbit in Greenpoint, daily from open until 8pm, $6 house lager and a $10 lager-plus-bourbon boilermaker. Loreley on the Lower East Side, Mon-Thu, $2 off drafts, $6 cans and $16 litre steins. Watermark Bar on Pier 15, Mon-Thu 4-7pm and Fri 2-6pm, $8 beer and $12 wine plus a separate oyster hour. Vinateria in Harlem, Tue-Fri 5-7pm and weekends 4-7pm, $5 beer and $1.75 oysters. Greenwood Park in South Slope, Mon-Fri noon-7pm, $2 off drafts, wine and cocktails.
What is the cheapest outdoor bar in NYC?
Gowanus Yacht Club at 323 Smith Street in Carroll Gardens, where the average drink is about $4 – cash only, in an open-air yard of painted picnic tables with a half-barrel grill going. It has no formal happy hour because the whole place is priced like one. It is strictly seasonal, running roughly mid-April to late October. After that: Bohemian Hall in Astoria at $6 a mug and $16 a pitcher, and Black Rabbit’s $6 house lager at happy hour.
Which outdoor bars in NYC work in winter?
Very few, and only two are documented properly. Loreley Beer Garden on Rivington Street states on its own site that the garden has heaters in the winter and fans in the summer. Radegast Hall in Williamsburg has a retractable roof that opens in summer and protects the space in cooler weather. Everything else here is a warm-weather proposition – Gowanus Yacht Club closes for the winter entirely, and Grand Banks and The Frying Pan leave the water.
Is Pilot at Brooklyn Bridge Park still open?
No. Pilot, the 1924 schooner that served oysters at Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, sank overnight in Red Hook’s Henry Street Basin on 3 July 2026, with no one aboard. Several guides still list it. Its sister operation, Grand Banks, run by the same owners aboard the 1942 schooner Sherman Zwicker at Pier 25 in Tribeca, is still trading – its 2026 season opened on 13 April.
Which NYC outdoor happy hour has the longest window?
Two run seven hours: Greenwood Park in South Slope, Monday to Friday noon to 7pm with $2 off drafts, wine and cocktails, and Kokomo in Williamsburg, Wednesday to Friday noon to 7pm with $10 cocktails and $7 wine. Black Rabbit in Greenpoint and King Tai in Crown Heights both run from open until 8pm every day, which is around six hours on a weekday and longer at weekends. Blinky’s in Williamsburg is the only one that runs twice a night – 4-7pm and again from midnight until close.
Last updated: August 2026. Prices and hours change – confirm with the venue before you go. Spot something out of date? Let us know.
