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Friday Happy Hour
in NYC
The night most happy hours quietly clock off. These 33 don’t.
Friday happy hours run from 11am to 4am — ten start before noon.
- 33 verified spots
- 9hrs longest Friday window
- oysters from $1
- running till 4am
Friday happy hour in NYC is the one that quietly disappears. These are the 33 bars that still run a real one — verified this week on each venue’s own site. The best of them right now: Grey Lady on Delancey holds $1 oysters for six hours, 1 to 7pm. John Doe in NoMad runs nine straight hours, 11am to 8pm, and actually cuts prices on a Friday. Down the Hatch in the West Village flips to a $10 beer-and-shot until 4am. Continental in FiDi runs 11am to 8pm plus FryBar Fridays. And Bronx Alehouse does eight hours and $10 plates in Kingsbridge. Grouped by how you are playing the night — and at the bottom, the bars whose happy hour stops before Friday even starts.
The short version
- Best overallGrey Lady — six hours of $1 oysters on a Friday, 1–7pm.
- Longest windowJohn Doe — nine hours, 11am–8pm, and Friday is cheaper.
- Best for a groupContinental — $25 buckets and $25 pitchers, FryBar Fridays.
- Best after 10pmDown the Hatch — $10 beer and a shot, 7pm to 4am, Friday only.
- Best outside ManhattanBronx Alehouse — eight hours and $10 plates in Kingsbridge.
- Don’t botherTurning up at 10pm expecting a deal. Friday is when they stop.
The pick · best Friday group deal Featured partner On now
Continental Sports Lounge
82 Beaver Street, Financial District · 70+ screens in the building they shot John Wick in
FryBar Fridays is the reason this is the Friday pick rather than just a long window. The weekday happy hour runs 11am to 8pm, and Friday layers its own menu on top: $8 fries, sweet potato fries, tater tots and cajun fries, $12 for truffle or loaded, $25 buckets of ADIOS seltzers or 12oz Heinekens, $25 pitchers of Michelob and $30 of Bitburger, $15 food combos and $10 shooters. The why: it is the best group-priced Friday I could verify anywhere in lower Manhattan — one bucket and one pitcher feeds four people for less than two Midtown cocktails, in a room with seventy screens and no velvet rope.
Continental on Happy Hour NYC · FiDi happy hours · See it in the full list
At a glance
All 33, sorted by how the night runs. Every window below is the Friday window — several of these bars run different hours the rest of the week.
| Bar | The Friday deal | Days | Window | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Doe Craft Bar & Kitchen | $1 oysters, $5 pints, $6 Heineken, $6 house wine, $7 wells, $11 cocktails | Daily | 11am–8pm | $$$ |
| Bronx Alehouse | $2 off all well drinks, draft beer and wine; $10 bites | Mon–Fri | 11am–7pm | $$$ |
| Blend on the Water | $9 mojitos, margaritas, caipirinhas, sangria and frozens; $6 drafts; $5–7 bites | Mon–Fri | 11am–7pm | $$$ |
| Hair of the Dog | All drinks half off; $3 slider | Mon–Fri | 12–7pm | $$$ |
| Rivercrest | $6 any 16oz draft, $12 tap cocktails, $7 wines, $5 Jäger shots, $25 seltzer buckets | Mon–Fri | open–7pm | $$$ |
| The Stumble Inn | Half off the entire bar | Mon–Fri | open–7pm | $$$ |
| Congress Bar | $2 off menu cocktails, draft beer and wine | Fri | 1–7pm | $$$ |
| Continental Sports Lounge | Weekday happy hour 11am–8pm, plus FryBar Fridays: $8 fries, $25 buckets, $25–30 pitchers | Mon–Fri | 11am–8pm | $$$ |
| Valerie | $1 oysters, $14 cocktails, $11 house wine, $7 drafts, $16 cheese and charcuterie | Mon–Fri | 4–7pm | $$$ |
| Legasea Bar & Grill | $2 oysters, $4 fries, $6 beer, $8 wine, $10 martinis — bar only | Mon–Fri | 3–6:30pm | $$$ |
| Angel of Harlem | $10 well drinks, rum punch, wine and sangria; $7 drafts | Fri | 4–8pm | $$$ |
| Harlem Tavern | $6 select drafts, $7 house mixed drinks, $8 select wine, $9 sangria, $10 cocktail of the day | Mon–Fri | 4–7pm | $$$ |
| Sweet Afton | $10 select house cocktails, $10 beer and shot | Fri | 3–7pm | $$$ |
| Cobblestones Pub & Biergarten | $7 flat: all draughts, all wines by the glass, all mixed drinks; half-price wings with a drink | Mon–Fri | 3–7pm | $$$ |
| Weather Up | $16 cocktails, $6 beer, $12 wine | Mon–Sat | 5–7pm | $$$ |
| Off the Wagon | $2 off the entire bar; free draft or wine with a meal till 5pm; $10 beer and shot all day | Mon–Fri | 12–7pm | $$$ |
| Hardware Bar | Half-price drinks | Daily | 2–8pm | $$$ |
| The Dram Shop | Half off drafts, wells and wines; $10 frozen cocktails; $5 house champagne and mimosas | Mon–Fri | 11:30am–6pm | $$$ |
| 169 Bar | $2 off any liquor drink (well shots excluded), $1 off any beer, $2 well shot with any beer | Daily | 2–7pm | $$$ |
| Whiskey Tavern | $8 wells, $8 wine, $5 Miller High Life, $10 shot and beer, $20 Miller Lite pitcher, $12 wings | Mon–Fri | 3–7pm | $$$ |
| Kashkaval Garden | $8 wine, beer and mixed drinks; $9 mocktails — all day at the bar and chef’s table | Sun–Fri | 3–6pm (all day at the bar) | $$$ |
| Grey Lady | $1 oysters, $6 draft beers, $9 wine | Thu–Fri | 1–7pm | $$$ |
| Roxy Bar | $2 East Coast oysters, $5 select draft, $10 wines by the glass, $10 Mini Roxy Martini | Daily | 4–6pm (all night Mon) | $$$ |
| Bocca di Bacco Theater District | $1.50 raw oysters (min 6), $2.50 Rockefeller, $6 beer, $9 wine, $12 cocktails — bar only | Sun–Fri | 4pm–close | $$$ |
| The Dead Rabbit | $2 oysters by the half dozen, $8 Guinness pints, cocktail specials | Mon–Fri | not published | $$$ |
| Little Rebel | $1 Blue Point oysters, $9 margaritas and cocktails, $6 seltzers, ciders and Rebel Lager | Mon–Fri | 2–7pm Friday | $$$ |
| LELABAR | $3 oysters, $14 wine by the glass, $7 beer, $5 cheese and charcuterie | Tue–Fri | 4–6pm | $$$ |
| Down the Hatch | 1/2 off all drinks 2–7pm; Friday 7pm–4am $10 beer and a shot; $3 hot dogs after midnight | Mon–Fri | 2–7pm, then 7pm–4am | $$$ |
| Alfie’s | $10 cocktails, $8 wine, $8 drafts, $9 wells — 11am–7pm and again 11pm–close | Daily | 11am–7pm & 11pm–4am | $$$ |
| Miss Nellie’s | $10 negronis, spicy margaritas, hugo spritzes and Solid Gold lager; $12 house wines | Mon–Fri | 2–6pm & 11pm–close | $$$ |
| Dutch Fred’s | Midnight Run 12am–close: $10 margaritas, whisky sours and wines, $6 select drafts | Daily | 12am–close | $$$ |
| El Pingüino | Half off oysters, $12 sherry, $12 martini; late window $10 sardines, $12 Midori sour | Daily | 4–7pm & 10pm–12am | $$$ |
| The Penrose | $5 mug of Spaten, $12 cocktails and pinot 3–6pm; $10 select drinks after 10pm nightly | Mon–Fri | 3–6pm & after 10pm | $$$ |
Map: where these 33 spots are
Manhattan 25, Brooklyn 3, Queens 4, the Bronx 1. Pin numbers match the table above.
Pins are numbered to match the table — tap any pin for the deal and directions.
Friday’s longest windows
Six hours or more, every one of them verified on the venue’s own site. These are the bars that treat Friday like any other weekday — which, as the rest of this page shows, is rarer than it should be.
John Doe Craft Bar & Kitchen On now
Nine hours is the longest happy hour on this page, and Friday is the day it gets cheaper. John Doe runs the same 11am–8pm window every day, but Friday swaps in a menu they call TGIF!: featured cocktails drop from $12 to $11, house wine drops from $7 to $6, and $6 select craft beers and $5 shot specials appear that aren’t there Monday. It is the only place I found where Friday is a discount on the discount. The local move: the $1 oysters are the reason to come, and at 5pm on a Fifth Avenue Friday you can still get a seat. The honest caveat: their own site can’t agree on when the oysters stop — the banner says the happy hour ends at 8pm, the TGIF menu says oysters are “all day.” Go before 8 and the question never comes up.
John Doe Craft Bar & Kitchen on Happy Hour NYC · johndoenyc.com · Midtown happy hours
Bronx Alehouse On now
Eight hours, and it is the only Bronx entry on this page — which says more about the guides than about the Bronx. Eleven in the morning to seven at night, Monday to Friday, $2 off every well drink, draft and glass of wine. The real value is the $10 bites: a quarter-pounder with fries, fish strips and fries, or wings and mac. That is a full meal at a price Manhattan stopped offering around 2015. The why: a bar that runs to 4am and still discounts at 11am is a bar built for its neighbourhood, not for a listicle. The honest caveat: it is a discount, not a fixed price, and they don’t publish what the base pours cost — so the $10 plates are the sure thing. Parties of six or more get an automatic 20% gratuity.
Blend on the Water On now
Eight hours of $9 frozen drinks with the Manhattan skyline directly across the water, and almost nobody outside Queens knows it exists. Mojitos, margaritas, caipirinhas, sangria and every frozen on the list are $9 until 7pm. Drafts are $6, select wines $9, Don Julio and Jack shots $6, and the bar snacks run $5–7 — the chicken tostaditas and mini empanadas at $5 are the order. The local move: it is a four-minute walk from the Vernon Blvd–Jackson Ave 7 train, which makes it a genuinely realistic post-work stop from Midtown. The honest caveat: the esplanade seats go first on a warm Friday and there is no holding them — if the weather is good, get there before six.
Blend on the Water on Happy Hour NYC · blendonthewater.com · LIC happy hours
Hair of the Dog On now
Half off everything for seven hours is the simplest good deal on the Lower East Side, and the $3 slider makes it a plan rather than a drink. Noon to seven, Monday through Friday, no carve-outs published — not “select drafts,” not “well only.” All drinks. The why: most Orchard Street bars treat Friday as the day to stop discounting; this one runs the same seven hours it runs on a Tuesday and then stays open until 4am. The honest caveat: The Infatuation lists this place as “daily, 7pm–close,” which contradicts the bar’s own site. Trust the bar — go in the afternoon.
Hair of the Dog on Happy Hour NYC · hairofthedognyc.com · Lower East Side happy hours
Rivercrest On now
Seven hours on a Friday, and the deal is the same one they run all week — which on this page counts as generosity. Any sixteen-ounce draft is $6, every cocktail on tap is $12 (margarita, Rivercrest old fashioned, cold brew martini, white sangria), wine is $7 and Jäger shots are $5. Buckets of Dirty Water seltzer are $25 if there are four of you. The honest caveat, and it matters: Rivercrest also runs a late happy hour, 10pm to 2am — Monday to Thursday only. Turn up at ten on a Friday expecting it and you pay full price. The Friday move here is the afternoon, not the night.
The Stumble Inn On now
Half off the whole bar from the moment the doors open until seven, five days a week. No “select” qualifier, no bar-only rule, no list of exclusions — the entire bar, for seven hours. On the Upper East Side that is unusual enough to be the reason you go. The honest caveat: every other day of the week here has a named evening special — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday all get one. Friday gets nothing after 7pm. Once the half-price window shuts you are paying rack rate in a room that just filled up. And one correction under our own byline: this page used to advertise a $14 bucket of five beers here. It does not exist and never did — see the traps section below.
The Stumble Inn on Happy Hour NYC · thestumbleinnnyc.com · Upper East Side happy hours
Congress Bar On now
Congress runs a three-hour happy hour Monday to Thursday and a six-hour one on Friday. It is the clearest example on this page of a bar going the other way — while everyone else clips Friday, Congress doubles it, opening the doors at 1pm and holding $2 off menu cocktails, draft beer and wine until seven. The why: Court Street empties out for the commute and fills again at eight, so the bar spends the gap giving you a reason to stay. The local move: get there before four, when it is still quiet enough to hear the person opposite you. The honest caveat: $2 off is a discount, not a price — the value here is the six-hour runway, not the size of the cut.
Congress Bar on Happy Hour NYC · congressbarbk.com · more Brooklyn happy hours
The post-work Friday
The classic three-to-seven, done properly, from FiDi to Inwood. Two of these are actually better on a Friday than the rest of the week.
Continental Sports Lounge On now
Nine hours, and a Friday that has its own name. The weekday happy hour runs 11am to 8pm, Monday through Friday, and on top of it Friday gets FryBar Fridays: $8 fries, sweet potato fries, tater tots and cajun fries, $12 for truffle or loaded, $25 buckets of ADIOS seltzers or 12oz Heinekens, $25 pitchers of Michelob and $30 of Bitburger, $15 food combos and $10 shooters. The why: it is the best group-priced Friday I could verify in lower Manhattan — a bucket and a pitcher feeds four people for the price of two Midtown cocktails. The honest caveat: Continental’s own two pages disagree about Friday. The events page lists the weekday window as Monday–Friday 11am–8pm; the specials calendar stamps FryBar Fridays 4–6pm. The same calendar stamps Thursday two different ways too, so it reads as a calendar quirk rather than a Friday cut — but if you are going early, it is worth a call.
Continental Sports Lounge on Happy Hour NYC · continentalbarnyc.com · FiDi happy hours
Valerie On now
The best-looking room on this page that still sells a dollar oyster. Four to seven, Monday to Friday: $1 oysters, $14 cocktails from a list that includes a proper Sazerac and a Spanish G&T, $11 house wines, $7 select drafts and a $16 cheese and charcuterie board that turns a drink into dinner. Over a hundred gins behind the bar and martinis kept in the freezer door. The local move: come after five. Happy hour opens at four but lunch service ends at 3:30 and dinner doesn’t start until five, so the first hour is the awkward one. Correction: we published $13 cocktails here for months. Their own beverage list says $14. It is fixed above, and there is a stale PDF on Valerie’s own server still printing $11 — if you are checking my work, check the live page, not the PDF.
Valerie on Happy Hour NYC · valerienewyorkcity.com · $1 oyster happy hours
Legasea Bar & Grill On now
A $10 martini and a $2 oyster within a block of Times Square is not supposed to be possible, and this is the page’s biggest correction. For months we published this deal under Magic Hour, the rooftop bar upstairs in the same hotel. It was never Magic Hour’s. It is Legasea’s, on the second floor — and Magic Hour doesn’t even open until 5pm, which makes a 3pm happy hour there physically impossible. See the traps section. What is real: $2 oysters, $4 fries, $6 beer, $8 wine and $10 martinis, Monday to Friday, 3 to 6:30pm. The honest caveat: bar only, and the bar is up an escalator past a hotel lobby, not off the street. At $2 an oyster it fills by five on a Friday.
Angel of Harlem On now
Four hours is the longest post-work Friday window uptown, and the rum punch is the order. Doors open at four and the happy hour opens with them: $10 well drinks, their rum punch, wine and sangria, $7 drafts of Good Angel Lager and Bad Angel Amber, until eight. The local move: Wednesday and Thursday this deal runs all night — Friday it is a fixed 4-to-8. If you want the all-nighter, come midweek. The honest caveat, and it is one we owe you: a claim has been circulating that Angel of Harlem does unlimited or bottomless drinks on a weeknight. It does not. The bottomless offer is a weekend brunch add-on at $39 per person on top of an entrée, capped at 90 minutes. Nothing here is unlimited and nothing here is free.
Angel of Harlem on Happy Hour NYC · angelofharlemnyc.com · Harlem happy hours
Harlem Tavern On now
The biggest outdoor drinking room in Harlem, and the Friday prices are the same as the Monday prices. $6 select drafts, $7 house mixed drinks, $8 select red and white, $9 sangria and a $10 cocktail of the day, four to seven, every weekday. The local move: the patio is the entire point and it is gone by five on a warm Friday — if you want it, be early or be inside. The honest caveat: their own website footer prints the ZIP as 10002, which is the Lower East Side. It is a typo on their end; the bar is at Frederick Douglass and 116th, ZIP 10026. If a map app sends you downtown, that is why.
Harlem Tavern on Happy Hour NYC · harlemtavern.com · Harlem happy hours
Sweet Afton On now
One of exactly two bars I found in the whole city where the Friday happy hour is longer than the rest of the week’s. Monday to Thursday it is 4 to 7. On Friday it starts at 3pm and runs the same four hours to seven: $10 select house cocktails, $10 beer and a shot. The why: that extra hour is the difference between catching the deal and watching it end while you are still on the N. The local move: the beer-and-shot is the actual value here — $10 for a select cocktail in Astoria is fair, not cheap, and “select” is doing real work on that list. Kitchen runs to 1am and the bar to 4am, so the night has somewhere to go.
Sweet Afton on Happy Hour NYC · sweetaftonbar.com · Astoria happy hours
Cobblestones Pub & Biergarten On now
One price, four hours, no arithmetic: everything is $7. Every draught beer, every wine by the glass — chardonnay, moscato, pinot grigio, rosé, cabernet, malbec, merlot, pinot noir — and every mixed drink, all $7, three to seven, Monday to Friday. Wings are half price with a drink. The why: a flat price is worth more than a bigger discount you have to decode at the bar, and this is the cleanest one in the city. The honest caveat: two carve-outs, both published — Delirium is excluded from the draught deal, and a “mixed drink” here means one bar liquor and one mixer, not anything off the cocktail list. The half-price wings are dine-in only.
Cobblestones Pub & Biergarten on Happy Hour NYC · cobblestonespub.com · more Queens happy hours
Weather Up On now
The prettiest bar on this page and the one where you should order the beer. Five to seven, Monday to Saturday: $6 beer (Monopolio lager, Five Boroughs Tiny Juicy IPA), $12 wine, $16 cocktails — a Moscow mule, a revolver, a margarita, a daiquiri. Sixteen dollars is not a happy hour price, and I am not going to pretend otherwise; the $6 beer in that room is the actual deal. The honest caveat, and it is ours: this page advertised $1 oysters here for months. Weather Up has no oysters, at any price. The claim came from us, it was live on six of our own URLs, and it is gone. The deal above is read off the happy hour card on their own site. Closed Sundays.
Weather Up on Happy Hour NYC · weatherupnyc.com · Tribeca happy hours
Half off, and honest prices
Where the discount is deep rather than decorative. Mostly dives and pubs, mostly all afternoon, and one free drink nobody writes about. More in our best dive bars in NYC guide.
Off the Wagon On now
The free drink is the part nobody prints. Noon to seven, $2 off the entire bar — and until 5pm, a free draft beer or glass of wine with any meal. That is a lunch and a drink in Greenwich Village for the price of the lunch. The $10 beer-and-shot is real but it is the everyday base price, not a happy hour item; it is available until they shut at 4am. The honest caveat, and it is the whole reason this page exists: Off the Wagon runs a named night special every single day of the week — $5 wells Monday, $7 Tito’s Tuesday, $7 spritzes Wednesday, $8 mules Thursday, beat-the-clock Saturday, $5 drafts Sunday. Friday is the one day with nothing. They are not hiding it; Friday just doesn’t need the help.
Off the Wagon on Happy Hour NYC · offthewagonnyc.com · Greenwich Village happy hours
Hardware Bar On now
Six hours a day, seven days a week, half price — the longest genuinely-every-day window I verified anywhere in the city, and Friday is not carved out of it. Two in the afternoon to eight at night, no exceptions listed, including Saturday and Sunday. The back garden is the reason to pick this over the other Tenth Avenue options. The honest caveat, and I want to be straight about it: “half-price drinks” is the entire pricing language Hardware publishes. There is no price list anywhere on their site, so I can’t tell you what a beer costs, and they don’t publish a closing time either. Half of an unpublished number is still an unpublished number — the six-hour window is the verified fact here.
The Dram Shop On now
Six and a half hours of half-price drinks, and a $5 mimosa that only exists during happy hour. Half off drafts, wells and wines from 11:30 in the morning, plus $10 frozen cocktails and a $7.75 munchie menu. The $5 house champagne and $5 mimosa are the line worth knowing — they are marked happy-hour-only, which makes an early Friday here genuinely cheap. The local move: there is a pool table and it is free early. The honest caveat: the 6pm end time comes off a drink menu on their own server dated 2025, and prices have already drifted since it was published (the munchie menu went $7.25 to $7.75). The deal is on their live specials page; the exact end time is worth confirming if you are cutting it fine.
169 Bar On now
Five hours every single day, and the cheapest beer in the room lands at $4. The structure, exactly as they print it: $2 off any liquor drink, $1 off any beer, and a $2 well shot with any beer. Their beer list is priced in tiers from $5, so the discount puts Famosa, Genesee, Miller and PBR at $4. The local move: they stop taking reservations at 4:30 on Fridays, so the happy hour is also the last window where you can just walk in and sit down. Three corrections, all ours: this page said $3 oysters — 169 Bar has no raw bar and serves no oysters at any price; the food menu is empanadas, dumplings and cajun popcorn. It said 2–7:30pm; the window is 2–7. And well shots are explicitly excluded from the $2 off, so the only cheap shot is the beer combo.
169 Bar on Happy Hour NYC · 169barnyc.com · best dive bars in NYC
Whiskey Tavern On now
The best-documented price list of anything on this page, and a back patio almost nobody knows about. Three to seven, Monday to Friday: $8 wells, $8 wine, $5 Miller High Life bottles, a $10 shot and beer, and a $20 Miller Lite pitcher that is the correct order if there are three of you. Food is priced into the deal too — $12 wings, $10 nachos, $7 fries or tots. The local move: it sits behind the courthouses, so it empties out exactly when the rest of downtown fills up. Five o’clock on a Friday here is calmer than four o’clock anywhere on Orchard Street. The honest caveat: the deal lives only on their menu page — the homepage says nothing about it.
Whiskey Tavern on Happy Hour NYC · whiskeytavernnyc.com · best dive bars in NYC
Kashkaval Garden On now
Eight dollars for wine, beer or a mixed drink, all day, every day — including Friday, including Saturday — as long as you sit at the bar or the chef’s table. That is the best standing price in Hell’s Kitchen and it is printed on their own homepage, where almost nobody reads it, because everyone copies the Sunday-to-Friday 3–6pm table window instead. Mocktails are $9. The why: the food here is actually good — mezze, fondue, a serious cheese list — so an $8 glass isn’t the compensation for a bad room, it is just the price. The honest caveat: the all-day price is seat-dependent, not time-dependent. Take a regular table at 7pm on a Friday and you pay full freight. The badge above tracks the published table window; the bar deal is better than the badge.
Kashkaval Garden on Happy Hour NYC · kashkaval.com · best wine bar happy hours
Oysters and the quieter Friday
Six places doing a dollar-ish oyster on a Friday night, and the honest accounting of which prices are real. See also our $1 oyster happy hours guide.
Grey Lady On now
Six hours of dollar oysters is the single best Friday fact on this page, and we had it wrong on four of five fields. Grey Lady runs 4–7pm Sunday to Wednesday — and 1pm to 7pm on Thursday and Friday. Their door opens at 1pm on a Friday specifically so the happy hour can start with it. $1 oysters, $6 drafts, $9 wine, for six straight hours. The local move: two o’clock on a Friday, at the bar, before the Delancey crowd arrives. The honest caveat: their two-for-one espresso martinis and Aperol spritzes are branded “Two-for-One Thursdays” and run Thursday only — a lot of guides, including an earlier version of our own research, imply it covers Friday. It does not. We previously published Tue–Fri 4–7pm, $5 beers and $8 wines. All three were wrong.
Grey Lady on Happy Hour NYC · greyladynyc.com · $1 oyster happy hours
Roxy Bar On now
A two-dollar oyster in a room with live jazz and a doorman is a genuine anomaly. The Nitely Sunset Specials run 4 to 6pm every day, Friday included: $2 East Coast oysters, $5 select draft, $10 wines by the glass and a $10 Mini Roxy Martini, vodka or gin. On Mondays the whole thing runs all night. The why: it is the cheapest way into one of the better-looking hotel bars downtown, and two hours is enough. The honest caveat: The Roxy Hotel runs several rooms and they get conflated constantly. The hotel’s own blog pages still advertise these oysters at $1 and $1.50 — both stale. And the $1 oysters you may have seen belong to The Oyster Bar at The Roxy, a different room in the same building.
Roxy Bar on Happy Hour NYC · roxybarnyc.com · Tribeca happy hours
Bocca di Bacco Theater District On now
Eight hours of $1.50 oysters on a Friday, and Saturday is the day they don’t do it. Sunday through Friday, four in the afternoon until close — which on a Friday means midnight. $1.50 raw oysters, $2.50 Rockefeller, $6 beer, $9 wine by the glass, $12 cocktails and $12 sangria. The why: almost every oyster deal in this city is a two-hour window; this is a whole evening. The honest caveat: bar only, six-oyster minimum, and Bocca’s own site contradicts itself — their events page is headlined “Happy Hour and $1 Oysters” while the actual Theater District happy hour menu prices them at $1.50. The menu wins. Don’t walk in expecting a dollar.
The Dead Rabbit
They refuse to call it a happy hour, which is very Dead Rabbit, and they also refuse to publish when it runs. “Shuck and Stout” is Monday to Friday in the taproom: $2 oysters by the half dozen, $8 Guinness pints and cocktail specials. That is a real price at what is routinely called one of the best bars in the world. The honest caveat, and it is why this card has no live badge: the time window appears nowhere on their site. Other guides print 3–6pm; I could not source that first-party, so I am not printing it. Several also print a $7 draft — their own page says $8. One more trap: there are two Dead Rabbit domains and the old one advertises a completely different offer. thedeadrabbit.com is the live one.
The Dead Rabbit on Happy Hour NYC · thedeadrabbit.com · FiDi happy hours
Little Rebel On now
Dollar oysters and nine-dollar margaritas, and the best illustration on this page of Friday getting quietly worse. Little Rebel runs three deals. The main happy hour — $1 Blue Point oysters, $9 Rebel margarita, James Dean, Escobar and Cruel Summer, $6 seltzers, ciders and Rebel Lager — is advertised Monday to Friday from 11am. But the door doesn’t open until 2pm on a Friday, so the real Friday window is 2 to 7, and that is what the badge above encodes. The other two deals — the 10pm–2am late happy hour and the half-price rosé bottles — are Monday to Thursday only. Two of its three deals switch off on Friday. Go in the afternoon or don’t bother.
Little Rebel on Happy Hour NYC · littlerebelnyc.com · East Village happy hours
LELABAR On now
Three-dollar oysters and five-dollar cheese in a room that seats about twenty. The happy hour is written on their menu as “every day until 6” — which means the length depends entirely on when the door opens. On Friday the door is 4pm, so you get a clean two hours: $3 oysters, $14 wine by the glass or $52 the bottle, $7 beer, and cheese, charcuterie, almonds and olives at $5 a plate. The local move: get one of the four seats at the bar and order two cheeses and an oyster each; it is a better dinner than most $60 ones nearby. Correction: we published $8–$10 wine here. It is $14, and the beer is $7, not $6. Our own profile page for this bar is still wrong and is being fixed.
LELABAR on Happy Hour NYC · lelabar.com · best wine bar happy hours
Still running late on a Friday
This is the shortest section on the page and that is the point. Six bars still discounting after 9pm on a Friday, in a city of thousands — and one of them doesn’t start until midnight.
Down the Hatch On now
The only bar I could verify anywhere downtown with a Friday-specific deal that survives past 8:30pm — and it runs until four in the morning. Two to seven it is half off all drinks, in their words, not ours. Then at seven the Friday deal starts: $10 for a beer and a shot — Bud Light or Coors draft or a Nutrl seltzer, with any well, green tea or Skrewball — and it holds until 4am. The local move: $3 hot dogs from midnight, every night. The honest caveat: the $7 Tito’s and $8 Red Bull bombs you may have seen attached to this bar are Thursday only. And the $10 beer-and-shot is Friday only here — it is not, as we and others have printed, an everyday offer.
Down the Hatch on Happy Hour NYC · downthehatchnyc.com · West Village happy hours
Alfie’s On now
Thirteen hours of happy hour on a Friday, split across two shifts, which is more than any other bar on this page. Eleven in the morning to seven at night, then again from 11pm until they close at 4am — seven days a week, weekends included at slightly different daytime hours. $10 old fashioned, classic margarita or gin and tonic, $8 pinot grigio or pinot noir, $8 amber ale and pilsner, $9 wells. The why: the late shift is the rare thing here. Almost nobody in this city discounts at midnight on a Friday. The honest caveat: $8 for a draft is not a bargain and I won’t pretend it is — you are buying the hours and the $10 cocktails, not the beer.
Alfie’s on Happy Hour NYC · alfiesnyc.com · Hell’s Kitchen happy hours
Miss Nellie’s On now
Ten-dollar negronis at midnight on a Friday, two blocks off Times Square. Two windows: 2 to 6 on weekday afternoons, then 11pm to close, seven nights a week. The list is $10 negronis, spicy margaritas, hugo spritzes and Solid Gold lager. The local move: order the negroni — the house wine is $12, which is more than the cocktails, and that is rarely the right way round. The honest caveat: the kitchen shuts at 1am, so if the late window is your plan, food is a narrow target. Doors are 11am to 3am.
Miss Nellie’s on Happy Hour NYC · missnelliesny.com · Hell’s Kitchen happy hours
Dutch Fred’s On now
A cocktail bar that starts its happy hour at midnight, seven nights a week. The Midnight Run is $10 margaritas, whisky sours and wines by the glass with $6 select drafts, from 12am until they close at 3am. There is nothing else like it in the neighbourhood, and after a Friday show lets out it is the only serious cocktail in the theater district at a sane price. Earlier on, Freddie’s Happy Meal runs 4pm to 11pm: $27 for a kale caesar or beef sliders with small fries and a house gin or vodka martini. The honest caveat: a “Friday” Midnight Run is technically Saturday morning — if you want it after Friday night out, you are drinking at 12:30am on Saturday. It runs either way. “Select” drafts are not specified.
Dutch Fred’s on Happy Hour NYC · dutchfreds.com · best cocktail bars in NYC
El Pingüino On now
The only Brooklyn bar I could verify with a genuine late Friday window, and the late menu is better than the early one. Seven days a week, 4 to 7: half off oysters, $12 glasses of sherry and $12 martinis. Then from 10pm to midnight: $10 sardines, $12 Midori sour and a $10 Faccia Brutto Ferrari. The why: tinned sardines and a Midori sour at eleven at night in Greenpoint is a specific and correct idea, and it costs less than a single cocktail in Manhattan. The honest caveat: they close at midnight, so the late window is literally the last two hours of the night — be there by eleven or it is not worth the trip.
El Pingüino on Happy Hour NYC · pinguinogreenpoint.com · Greenpoint happy hours
The Penrose On now
The after-ten deal is the reason this is on the page, and it runs, in their words, “Every. Single. Night.” From 10pm: $10 espresso martini, spicy margarita, or a Spaten with a well shot. On the Upper East Side, on a Friday, that is close to unique. Earlier, 3 to 6 weekdays, it is $5 for a mug of Spaten, $12 Penrose cocktails and $12 pinot noir or grigio. The local move: the $5 Spaten is the actual value — $12 for a cocktail at happy hour is barely a discount, and you should skip it in favour of the beer or the 10pm list. The honest caveat: their own site can’t agree with itself — the happy hour page says 3–6pm and the location page says 3–7pm. I have published the priced deal page. Open till 4am.
The Penrose on Happy Hour NYC · penrosebar.com · Upper East Side happy hours
Friday traps — including four of our own
Deals that aren’t deals, guides still recommending bars that closed years ago, and the mistakes we published under our own byline. This section is the reason to trust the rest of the page.
We put Magic Hour’s name on another bar’s happy hour
For months this page sold you “$6 beer, $8 wine, $10 spritzes and $4 fries, Mon–Fri 5–6:30pm, bar only” at Magic Hour Rooftop. That deal is not Magic Hour’s. It belongs to Legasea, the seafood room on the second floor of the same hotel — and the giveaway is that Magic Hour does not open until 5pm, which makes the real 3pm start physically impossible up there. The “$10 spritzes” appear on no menu anywhere; Legasea sells $10 martinis. The bar-only rule was Legasea’s too. The source we had been reading is a hotel dining page that dates itself “Open through Fall 2024.” Legasea is now on this page with the correct deal. Magic Hour is off it.
The Stumble Inn’s $14 beer bucket has never existed
We advertised “$14 buckets of 5 beers” at The Stumble Inn, and for a while our own Google description advertised it too. The word “bucket” appears nowhere on their site. What makes this one damning rather than merely wrong is that no aggregator carries it either — a stale listing error leaves a trail across a dozen copycat sites, and this one traces back only to us. We invented it. The real deal is half off the entire bar, noon to 7pm.
Weather Up has no oysters, at any price
“$1 oysters” at Weather Up was live on six of our own URLs. There is no raw bar. The actual happy hour, read off the card on their own site, is $16 cocktails, $6 beer and $12 wine, Monday to Saturday, 5–7pm. It is corrected across the site now, but Google may still be showing you our old headline for a while, and that is our fault, not yours.
169 Bar’s $3 oysters, and a link we sent to a domain broker
Two problems at one bar. We published $3 oysters at 169 Bar; they have no raw bar — the entire food menu is empanadas, dumplings and cajun popcorn. And the URL we were linking, 169bar.com, now redirects to a domain-resale marketplace. Anyone clicking through from our page landed on a for-sale listing. The live site is 169barnyc.com. Both are fixed above.
Mister Paradise’s oysters were Valerie’s oysters
We had been listing “$9 cocktails, $5 beers, $2 oysters” at Mister Paradise in the East Village. Their own site publishes no menu, no hours and no happy hour — it is photographs and an address. Every price we carried traced to a May 2021 listicle, and in that article the oysters belong to Valerie, a different bar further down the same page. The claim got welded onto the wrong venue and we copied it. Cut, not corrected — there is nothing to correct it to.
Time Out has a Sunday happy hour guide and no Friday one
This takes five seconds to check. Time Out New York publishes a live guide to the best Sunday happy hours in NYC, and a Monday one. Their Friday URL is a 404. The city’s biggest listings brand has a Sunday happy hour guide and no Friday one — because assembling a real Friday list is hard in exactly the way this page has been describing.
All day Monday. Nothing Friday.
Osamil in NoMad publishes its happy hour as “Mon & Sun: All Day / Tue–Thur: 5pm–7pm.” Friday and Saturday get nothing at all. Panda Harlem puts both halves in one sentence: happy hour “at the bar Tuesday through Thursday all night, and Friday from 5 PM to 7 PM.” Grand Army in Boerum Hill runs 5–7pm Monday to Thursday and shifts Friday to 4–6pm, so the hour you would actually use is the hour they remove. Milady’s (Sun–Thu), Walter’s (Mon–Thu), La Linea and Niagara all stop before Friday. And Forest Hills Station House lists a happy hour on four days a week; the Friday entry says only “Beer & Burger Special.”
A June 2026 guide admits the problem, then sends you to a bar that shut in 2014
Value Add VC’s “NYC Happy Hour Guide 2026,” published 3 June 2026 and still live, contains the line “Fridays often end at 6pm or get eliminated entirely.” It is right. It then recommends Rodeo Bar, which closed in July 2014, Therapy, which closed in July 2020, and Heartland Brewery, which has no locations left. Time Out’s August 2018 happy hour guide is also still live, and six of its nine bars are gone.
Maison Premiere’s $1 oysters are not a thing anymore
Half the internet still promises dollar oysters at Maison Premiere in Williamsburg. Their own site says, in capitals, that the oyster happy hour is not currently offered. If a Friday guide is still sending you there for $1 oysters, it has not been checked since before they stopped.
Friday happy hour in NYC: FAQ
What time does Friday happy hour start in NYC?
Earlier than you think, if you pick right. Ten bars on this page are already discounting by noon on a Friday — John Doe, Bronx Alehouse, Blend on the Water, Alfie’s and Continental all start at 11am, The Dram Shop at 11:30, and Hair of the Dog, Off the Wagon, Rivercrest and The Stumble Inn all start at noon. The most common Friday start is 4pm and the most common finish is 7pm.
Which NYC bar has the longest Friday happy hour?
John Doe Craft Bar & Kitchen in NoMad runs the longest single window at nine hours, 11am to 8pm, and Friday is the day its featured cocktails drop to $11. Alfie’s in Hell’s Kitchen runs longer in total — roughly thirteen hours — but splits it across two shifts, 11am to 7pm and 11pm to 4am. Bronx Alehouse and Blend on the Water both run eight straight hours, 11am to 7pm.
Where can I get $1 oysters on a Friday in NYC?
Grey Lady on Delancey is the best of them: $1 oysters from 1pm to 7pm on Thursdays and Fridays, six hours, alongside $6 drafts and $9 wine. Valerie in Midtown does $1 oysters 4–7pm, and Little Rebel in the East Village does $1 Blue Points until 7pm. Bocca di Bacco runs $1.50 oysters from 4pm to close, and Legasea and Roxy Bar both do $2.
Is there a late-night happy hour on Friday in NYC?
Barely, and that is the honest answer. Six bars on this page are still discounting after 9pm on a Friday. Down the Hatch in the West Village runs a $10 beer-and-shot from 7pm to 4am, Alfie’s and Miss Nellie’s both restart at 11pm, The Penrose does $10 select drinks after 10pm every night, El Pingüino runs 10pm to midnight, and Dutch Fred’s Midnight Run starts at 12am.
Why do so many NYC happy hours skip Friday?
Because Friday is the one night bars do not need to discount to fill the room. Off the Wagon runs a named special every night of the week except Friday. Little Rebel switches off two of its three deals on a Friday. Rivercrest’s late window is Monday to Thursday only. Milady’s, Walter’s, La Linea and Niagara all publish happy hours that stop before Friday. It is not an oversight — it is the business model.
Which NYC bars have a better happy hour on Friday than the rest of the week?
Three, and they are worth knowing. Congress Bar in Cobble Hill runs three hours Monday to Thursday and six on Friday, 1pm to 7pm. Sweet Afton in Astoria opens its window an hour earlier on Friday, at 3pm instead of 4pm. And John Doe’s TGIF menu actually cuts prices — featured cocktails go from $12 to $11 and house wine from $7 to $6.
Last verified: August 2026. Every deal on this page was checked against the venue’s own website or menu this week, not against another guide. Deals and hours still change — confirm before you travel for one. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it and say so.
