Manhattan / Kips Bay
Kips Bay
Happy Hour
The hospital neighborhood drinks on hospital hours — and its happy hours start earlier than anywhere else in Manhattan.
Kips Bay starts early — Blue Haven East opens the discount at 10:30am, The Crooked Knife and Paddy Reilly’s at 11am.
- 27 verified spots
- deals from 10:30am
- beer from $5
- 7 deals fixed or cut
Kips Bay happy hour runs on hospital time. This is the NYU Langone–Bellevue–VA corridor, a neighborhood full of people finishing a shift at eleven in the morning or eleven at night, and the bars have quietly built their deals around it. Blue Haven East starts discounting at 10:30am. The Crooked Knife and Paddy Reilly’s both run 11am to 7pm — eight straight hours. Street Taco hands out free nachos to anyone with a hospital ID on Thursdays and runs happy hour pricing all day for them. Not one competing guide has noticed any of this. Below: 27 bars checked against their own menus this week, grouped by when the deal actually starts.
The short version
- Best valueThe Crooked Knife — $7 Stella and $8 cocktails, 11am to 7pm on weekdays. Eight hours.
- Earliest startBlue Haven East — $2 off beer, wine, seltzer and wells from 10:30am.
- Best on ThirdThe Flying Cock — $6 drafts and $10 margaritas, 4–8pm, seven days a week.
- For the night shiftStreet Taco — 4–7pm and again 10pm to close, plus all-day Thursdays on a hospital ID.
- Cheapest pint, no clockFitzgerald’s — $7 pints and $21 pitchers, 11am to 4am, no window to catch.
- The one we deletedBanter — we published a happy hour that does not exist here. It is gone.
At a glance
Sorted by section, strongest windows first. Tap a number on the map to place it. Every price here came from the venue’s own menu.
| Bar | The deal | Days | Window | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Crooked Knife | $7 Stella, $8 Goose Island, $8 espresso martini, spicy marg, Aperol spritz | Mon–Fri | 11am–7pm | $$$ |
| Paddy Reilly’s Music Bar | Happy hour pricing; all-day Sunday | Mon–Sat | 11am–7pm | $$$ |
| Blue Haven East | $2 off all beer, seltzer, wine & well liquor (Wed adds cocktails) | Mon–Fri | 10:30am–7pm | $$$ |
| Banc Cafe | $10 cocktails, $6 cans, $6 drafts; ½ price wine bottles from 4pm | Mon–Fri | 3–8pm Mon–Tue; 12–7pm Wed–Fri | $$$ |
| The Flying Cock | $6 drafts, $10 margarita & espresso martini, $8 green tea shot, $10 wine | Daily | 4–8pm | $$$ |
| The Gem Saloon | $6 bottles, $7 seltzers, $8 drafts & wines, $10 signature cocktails | Mon–Fri | 4–8pm | $$$ |
| Bella Union | $7 drafts, $5–6 cans, $8 wines & wells (dine-in only) | Mon–Fri | 4–8pm | $$$ |
| Tara Rose | $8 drafts, $9 Aperol, $10 Hugo & mule, $11 Paloma, $10 house wine | Mon–Fri | 3–7pm | $$$ |
| Street Taco | $9 margaritas, $5 beers, $10 cocktails, $8 nachos, $20 Estrella bucket | Mon–Fri | 4–7pm + 10pm–close | $$$ |
| Sundays Well | Happy hour till 7pm; $10 Mondays all day; Sunday 3pm–close | Mon–Fri + Sun | till 7pm | $$$ |
| The Factory 380 | Discounted cocktails, craft beers & wines (prices not published) | Mon–Fri | 4–8pm | $$$ |
| Seven Sins | $7 drafts & house wine, $8 wells, $12 signature cocktails | Tue–Fri | 4–7pm | $$$ |
| Dog & Bone Tavern | Pub discounts, prices not published | Mon–Fri | 3–7pm (unconfirmed) | $$$ |
| El Parador Cafe | Cocktail Hour; rotating daily specials | Daily exc Mon | 4–6pm | $$$ |
| Patrizia’s of 2nd Avenue | Listed: $5 drafts, $8 wines & cocktails, $12 apps, $1 oysters | Daily | 4–6pm (see caveat) | $$$ |
| Fáilte | Happy hour menu exists; terms not published | Unpublished | Ask at the bar | $$$ |
| Mr. B Bar | Happy hour listed; terms not published | Unpublished | Ask at the bar | $$$ |
| Sahara’s | $6.95 beers, $10–13 raki, wine from $10 — standing prices | Daily | No HH — always | $$$ |
| Leonetta | $10 wines, $13 cocktails, $5 Stella pony, $7 Peroni, $12–19 bites | Mon–Fri | 4–6pm | $$$ |
| Ernie O’Malley’s | $6 select drafts & domestic bottles, $9 wine, $10 wells, $15 burger + beer | Daily | Window not published | $$$ |
| Rosehill Rooftop | No happy hour — seasonal rooftop, skyline views | Tue–Sat | 5pm–late | $$$ |
| Molly’s Shebeen | No happy hour — Guinness, fireplace, sawdust | Daily | 11am–4am | $$$ |
| Fitzgerald’s Pub | $7 house pints, $21 pitchers, $10 Paloma & Irish mule — standing | Daily | No HH — 11am–4am | $$$ |
| Common Country | No published happy hour — Southern whiskey, line dancing, live bands | Thu–Sat | 5pm–4am | $$$ |
| Lyndon Bar | No published happy hour — cheap beer, punk jukebox | Unpublished | Ask at the bar | $$$ |
| Craft + Carry | No published happy hour — craft taproom, bottle shop, free skeeball | Daily | No HH | $$$ |
| Banter NYC | DEAL REMOVED — no happy hour exists at this venue | — | — | $$$ |
Map: where these 27 spots are
Almost all of it is walkable: Third Avenue from E 22nd to E 34th, then a short hop east to Second. The 6 at 28th or 33rd puts you in the middle of it.
Pins are numbered to match the table above — tap any pin for the deal and directions.
Happy hour before noon
Kips Bay is the NYU Langone, Bellevue and VA corridor, and these four bars price for people whose day ended at eleven in the morning. Three of them run eight hours or more. Nowhere else in Manhattan does this.
The Crooked KnifeOn now
The best happy hour in Kips Bay, and it is not close. Eleven in the morning to seven at night, Monday through Friday — eight hours, every weekday, no asterisk. $7 Stella, $8 Goose Island IPA, and $8 for an espresso martini, a spicy margarita or an Aperol spritz. Those are cocktail prices from about 2015. It took over the old Waterfront Ale House space at 30th and Second and kept the neighborhood-bar feel rather than gutting it. The local move: come at 4pm on a weekday, when the hospital day shift lets out and the room fills with scrubs and nobody is performing for anyone. The honest caveat: the kitchen shuts at 10 even though the bar runs to 2am, so eat before you settle in.
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Paddy Reilly’s Music BarOn now
Eight hours a day, six days a week, and then all day Sunday — which is the most generous schedule on this page and one of the most generous in Manhattan. There is live music every single night, and it is a real stage with a real sound system, not a guy with an acoustic guitar wedged by the toilets. Bluegrass through to trad. The Guinness is the reason regulars are regulars. The honest caveat: they publish the window but not the prices, so I am not going to invent them — ask at the bar. The local move: Sunday afternoon, when the happy hour never ends and the session players drift in.
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Blue Haven EastOn now
Happy hour at 10:30 in the morning, which is either absurd or exactly right depending on what time your shift ended. $2 off all beer, seltzer, wine and well liquor, and on Wednesdays they throw cocktails into the same discount — a detail their own specials calendar carries and nobody else prints. Big sports room, every game on, open to 4am. The honest caveat: their site headlines the deal without a day, but the dated specials calendar they actually maintain only ever lists Monday to Friday. I have encoded it as weekdays. Also, their own footer prints the wrong ZIP — it is 10016, not 10002. Worth it for: $12 lunch specials, 11am to 3pm, holidays and big games excluded.
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Banc CafeOn now
We had this one sourced from a 2023 aggregator. I went and read their actual specials page, and the truth is better than what we were printing. $10 cocktails, $6 beer cans, $6 drafts — 3 to 8pm Monday and Tuesday, and noon to 7pm Wednesday through Friday. Then the line everybody misses, sitting on its own at the bottom of their menu: half-price bottles of wine starting at 4pm. Not Sundays. Every day. That is the best wine deal in Kips Bay and it is hiding in plain sight. Vaulted arch ceilings, live music Thursday through Sunday, food till 2am. The pill on this card is set to 3–7pm, the window that is true all five weekdays — midweek you get three extra hours on the front.
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The Third Avenue run
Nine bars between E 22nd and E 34th, most of them inside a ten-block walk. This is the crawl, and it is the densest stretch of happy hour on the East Side below 42nd. More in our best sports bars in NYC guide.
The Flying CockOn now
Four hours a day, seven days a week, weekends included — which almost nothing else on Third Avenue can say. $6 for Yuengling, Michelob Ultra, Miller Lite or a High Life; $10 house margarita or espresso martini; $8 green tea shots; $10 rosé and pinot grigio. There is a $45 tower if you bring three friends and poor judgment. It replaced Bar Rua at 33rd and it is louder and sportier than what was there. Skip the oyster hype: a couple of aggregators claim discounted oysters here. Their own happy hour menu has no oysters on it at all. Go for the $6 drafts and the fact that the deal is still running on a Saturday.
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The Gem SaloonOn now
The prettiest room on the strip and the prices are honest for what it is: $6 bottles, $7 hard seltzers, $8 drafts and wines, $10 signature cocktails, four to eight, Monday to Friday. Pressed tin ceilings and wood beams that were not installed last year by a design consultant. Genuine sports bar underneath the looks — people have watched Game 7s here. Correction from our last version: we said the Deadwood Deals ran all week. They are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday only, 4pm to 11pm: $25 Caesar and fries with a martini on Monday, $8 margaritas and $10 nachos Tuesday, $27 double cheeseburger and a drink Wednesday. The honest caveat: DJ from 10pm Thursday to Saturday, so the back table stops being a conversation.
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Bella UnionOn now
Three storeys plus a rooftop that genuinely sees the Empire State Building, which is more than most places claiming a view. $7 drafts, $5–6 cans and bottles, $8 wines and well drinks, four to eight on weekdays. The honest caveat we were missing, and it matters: dine-in only. It is printed on their own menu and it is exactly the kind of thing that ruins a round. Second caveat: the $5 espresso martinis on Tuesday run 4–8pm and are explicitly not valid on the rooftop. So the cheap drink and the good view are on different floors. The local move: Monday, half-price wine bottles from 8pm to late, with $10 pizzas running alongside. That is the actual reason to come here.
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Tara RoseOn now
We had four things wrong about this bar and they are all fixed here. It starts at 3pm, not 4. Drafts are $8, not $7. Palomas are $11, not $10. And the food deal is 2 for $24 shareables, not the $19.95 we were printing. Our old numbers matched a local blog better than they matched the bar — which tells you where they came from. What is actually true: $9 Aperol spritz, $10 Hugo spritz and mule, $10 house wine, $8 non-alcoholic spritz. Thursday runs happy hour drink prices from 3pm to close. The sidewalk setup is the biggest on the avenue. The local move: Sunday, half-price margaritas from 3pm and $7 Guinness — neither of which we were telling you about either.
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Street TacoOn now
Two windows a day and the single most Kips Bay thing on this page. $9 draft margaritas, $5 Estrella and Tecate, $10 cocktails, $8 nachos, $19 taco platter, $20 beer bucket — four to seven, and then again from 10pm to close. Then Thursday: Nurses Night. Show a hospital or office ID and the mini nachos are free, and happy hour pricing runs all day. That is a taqueria on Third Avenue building its week around the fact that it sits between NYU Langone, Bellevue and the VA. Nobody else writing about this neighborhood has bothered to mention it. The honest caveat: the poster says every day, their location page says weekdays. I have encoded weekdays — ask if you turn up on a Sunday.
Sundays WellOn now
We were publishing $1 oysters here. There are no oysters on the menu. Not discounted, not at full price — the dish does not exist at this bar. It traced to an app listing with AI-written summaries, and it is gone from this page. What is real, straight from the venue: happy hour until 7pm Monday to Friday, all day Sunday from 3pm, and $10 Mondays — ten-dollar food and drink specials, all day. They do not publish the prices for the rest of it, so I am not going to guess. What earns the listing anyway is the backyard, strung with bulbs and genuinely hidden, and a room where the music stays low enough to talk. The local move: Wednesday trivia, 8:30pm.
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The Factory 380On now
An Andy Warhol homage on Third Avenue, which sounds insufferable and mostly is not. Happy hour four to eight, Monday to Friday, on cocktails, craft beer and wine. There is a hidden room called Edie’s Hi-Fi behind it for private hire. DJs Wednesday through Saturday, and the doors stay open to 4am Thursday through Saturday, which is a genuinely short list in this neighborhood. The honest caveat, twice over: they do not publish a single price for the happy hour, and their own site contradicts itself on the hours — the nightlife page says Friday starts at 3pm, the happy hour page says 4. I have encoded the conservative version. Ask at the door before you commit the evening.
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Seven SinsOn now
The worst error we were shipping: we had this listed Monday to Friday. The bar is closed on Mondays. And Sundays. The happy hour is Tuesday to Friday, 4 to 7pm — straight from the venue, and both third-party guides carrying the Monday claim are simply wrong. The prices were right: $7 select drafts and house wine, $8 wells, $12 signature cocktails. It bills itself as a nineties high-energy party and sports bar and it commits to the bit — neon, high-backed stools, every sports package on. Worth it for: book eight or more for an office happy hour and they throw in an app platter. The honest caveat: at 293 Third this is really Gramercy, whatever the map says.
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Dog & Bone Tavern
Here is an uncomfortable thing I found while checking our own work: the only source on the internet for this bar’s 3–7pm happy hour was us. We were citing ourselves. The one piece of real support is a post on the bar’s own Instagram naming a 3pm start — and it is about three years old. So the window stays on the page, described honestly, with no live badge and no invented prices, until someone confirms it. Come anyway: it is properly dog-friendly, there is a house bulldog called Winston, regulars bring their own, and the seating spills into the Third Avenue plaza by Baruch. Regular drafts run $8–$10. The local move: ask what is on special. They will tell you.
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Second Avenue and east
Quieter, older, and cheaper. Second Avenue is where the neighborhood actually drinks once the Third Avenue televisions get loud.
El Parador CafeOn now
Open since 1959, which makes it the oldest Mexican restaurant in New York, and it has none of the self-regard that fact could justify. The Cocktail Hour runs 4 to 6pm and the specials rotate — they post them to their Instagram story rather than printing a fixed list, so I am not publishing prices I cannot stand behind. Family-run, generous, chips and salsa land before you have finished ordering, and the staff have been known to send out mezcal. The honest caveat, and it is the important one: they are closed on Mondays. The badge on this card knows that. Go here instead of whatever margarita chain you were considering on Second Avenue.
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Patrizia’s of 2nd Avenue
On paper this is the best-value happy hour east of Third: $5 draft beer, $8 wines and craft cocktails, $12 appetizers and $1 oysters, four to six, every day. Read the caveat before you plan around it. That deal appears on their OpenTable listing, which the restaurant manages, but it is not published on any page the restaurant itself controls — and a $1 oyster claim is exactly the sort of thing that gets a reader annoyed at the door. So: no live badge on this card, and call first. The room is big, three levels, outdoor patio, and genuinely loud — reviewers complain they cannot hear the person shouting across the table. Worth it for a group and a birthday. Skip it if you want to talk.
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Fáilte
A Second Avenue whiskey bar that has been here long enough to stop advertising. Their own ordering menu carries a tab literally headed Happy Hour, so the program exists — but the contents are not published anywhere, and the only guides that print a deal for Fáilte are working from records that date to roughly 2011. A decade-old copy is not a source. So: no prices, no badge, and an honest recommendation on other grounds. The food is the cheapest on this page by a distance — Irish toasties, burgers and pressed sandwiches from about $4 to $11 — and they host live comedy. The local move: ask what the happy hour is when you order the first round, then tell us.
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Mr. B Bar
The most interesting new room in Kips Bay and the one I most want someone to phone. Opened March 2025, Italian wines and aperitivi, antipasti and panini, Formula 1 on for the Ferrari crowd, and a bocce court — which as far as I can tell is the only one in a New York bar. Their own site lists a happy hour among the specials and then publishes the actual offers as images with no times or prices in them. One aggregator claims a Monday 11am–7pm window with money off beer, wine and cocktails; I could not confirm it and I am not printing it as fact. Why go anyway: it is a quiet, conversation-sized wine bar on a block that is otherwise sports televisions all the way down.
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Sahara’s
No happy hour, and it does not need one. Efes, Brooklyn Lager, Lagunitas, Heineken and Corona are all $6.95, all day, every day, which beats the discounted price at several bars on this page that make you show up in a four-hour window to get it. Raki runs $10–13, wine starts at $10 a glass. It is a Turkish restaurant with a real bar rather than a bar with a menu, and the food is the reason to stay. The why: a permanently fair price is worth more than a temporarily good one, and this is the cleanest example of that in the neighborhood.
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Lexington and the western edge
The last three blocks before Kips Bay turns into NoMad. One proper aperitivo hour, one Irish speakeasy, one rooftop. See also our Flatiron happy hour guide for what is immediately west.
LeonettaOn now
The only reason to walk west to Lexington, and a good one. Aperitivo Hour, four to six on weekdays: $10 for Lambrusco, prosecco, Savatiano or albariño; $13 for an Italian spritz, americano, negroni or Tommy’s margarita; a $5 seven-ounce Stella pony, which is a properly Italian way to drink a beer standing up; $7 Peroni. Food comes down too — a $12 little gem caesar, a $16 junior burger, $12 za’atar fries. There is a lounge downstairs with a DJ if the evening escalates. The honest caveat: two hours only, the shortest window on this page. Get there at four or do not bother.
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Ernie O’Malley’s
I nearly deleted this deal. A guide covering this neighborhood has the wrong bar at this address entirely, and our prices looked like they had been inherited from it. So I opened Ernie’s own happy hour menu and read it: $6 select drafts and domestic bottles, $9 wine, $10 wells — exactly what we had. Plus a $15 cheeseburger-or-buffalo-chicken with steak fries and a beer that we never mentioned. All confirmed, all staying. What I could not find anywhere is the window, so this card carries no badge. Open daily from noon. Two rooms: a seven-screen sports bar, and behind a bookcase an emerald-walled speakeasy with a real exhibition on Irish revolutionary history. The local move: go through the bookcase.
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Rosehill Rooftop
The only actual rooftop in range, on the ninth floor of the Park South Hotel, and there is no happy hour and no pretending otherwise. Multi-level terrace, unobstructed skyline, seventies-leaning decor, open April to November. Doors at 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday, and closed Sunday and Monday. There is a business-casual dress code, which tells you what kind of evening it is. Worth it for one drink at sunset when someone is visiting and you want to show off the city. Go here instead if you want the view for less: Bella Union’s roof is four blocks east and the drinks downstairs are half the price — just remember the happy hour does not follow you upstairs.
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No happy hour, still worth the night
Five rooms with no discounted window at all. Two of them have standing prices that beat most of the deals above, which is the more useful fact. More in our best dive bars in NYC guide.
Molly’s Shebeen
No happy hour, no interest in having one, and it is still the bar I would send you to. Sawdust on the floor. A working wood-burning fireplace built from Honduran mahogany when the place went up in 1895. Irish music on the jukebox and a room that has resisted every renovation trend of the last forty years. The city’s own tourism board calls it the rare New York Irish pub that is actually an Irish pub, and that is about right. Open 11am to 4am, seven days. The honest caveat: it has a long-standing cash-only reputation and I could not confirm either way this week — bring cash and you cannot be wrong. The why: some rooms do not need a discount to be worth the walk.
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Fitzgerald’s Pub
No happy hour and it does not matter, because the standing price is better than most of the discounts on this page. $7 pints and $21 pitchers of their own house Fitzgerald’s Amber and Lager plus Captain Lawrence IPA, all day, every day. $10 Palomas and Irish mules on the same terms. A burger and a domestic bottle is $20; Taco Tuesday is three tacos and a Tecate for $15; sixteen wings and fries on game day is $25. Open 11am to 4am, seven days, which makes it one of the few genuinely late pubs on the strip. The why: $7 for a pint you can order at 1am is worth more than $8 for one you can only order between four and seven.
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Common Country
Three and a half thousand square feet of Nashville transplanted to Third Avenue, opened at the end of 2024: real deer taxidermy, farmhouse beams shipped up from Kentucky, Tennessee whiskey, spiked sweet tea, elote fritters and a bloomin’ onion. Line dancing, country karaoke, live bands, DJs. No happy hour is published anywhere, so none is listed here. The honest caveat: it is a weekend room — Thursday to Saturday, opening at 5pm and running to 4am — and their own door staff post publicly about how much of a zoo it gets at peak. The local move: go early on a Thursday, before the queue exists, and leave before midnight.
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Lyndon Bar
The only genuine dive in the zone, and it describes itself better than I could: a hole-in-the-wall punk rock dive bar in Kips Bay, tagline cheap beer, punk rock. There is no published happy hour and there is no published anything else either — their menu is an image and their hours are mostly a rumour. Typical spend runs under $15 a head, which in this neighborhood is the deal. The why: every other room on this list is a sports bar, a restaurant with a bar, or a concept. This is a bar. The honest caveat: confirm they are open before you walk over, because they will not tell you online.
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Craft + Carry
A taproom and bottle shop that carries a Murray Hill name and a Kips Bay address — 440 Third at 30th is on our side of the line. No happy hour is published, so none is claimed. What it has instead is a rotating craft list you can drink in or carry out, free skeeball, and live music on Wednesdays. Worth it for: the one night you want something that is not a $7 domestic draft in a room with nine televisions. The honest caveat: their own site lists opening hours as 12am, which is a typo for noon and has clearly been there a while — check before an early visit.
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The deal we deleted
One venue we were advertising a happy hour for that does not exist. It stays on the page, with the correction visible, because quietly deleting a mistake is how bad information keeps circulating.
Banter NYC
We were publishing $6 drafts and $8–12 cocktails here. Neither is a happy hour price. They are simply what is printed on the regular menu — and the $8–12 cocktail claim is cheaper than every cocktail Banter actually sells. I checked the homepage, the locations page, the menu, the Murray Hill evening PDF and their own ordering page. There is no happy hour section anywhere. No shrunk deal, no seasonal pause — it never existed. It is a good Australian all-day cafe that closes at 9pm and at 4pm on Sundays, which is not really what you came to this page for. The listing stays because deleting the evidence is how bad information survives. The deal is gone.
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Kips Bay happy hour: FAQ
What time does happy hour start in Kips Bay?
Earlier than anywhere else in Manhattan. Blue Haven East (493 3rd Ave) starts at 10:30am, and both The Crooked Knife (540 2nd Ave) and Paddy Reilly’s (519 2nd Ave) run from 11am to 7pm on weekdays. Banc Cafe opens its window at noon Wednesday through Friday. The standard 4–7pm and 4–8pm windows exist too, mostly along Third Avenue.
Where is the best happy hour in Kips Bay?
The Crooked Knife, for value: $7 Stella, $8 Goose Island and $8 espresso martinis, spicy margaritas and Aperol spritzes, 11am to 7pm Monday to Friday. If you want a Third Avenue room, The Flying Cock runs $6 drafts and $10 margaritas from 4 to 8pm seven days a week, weekends included, which almost nothing else here does.
Is there a happy hour near NYU Langone, Bellevue or the VA hospital?
Yes, and one bar built its week around it. Street Taco at 358 3rd Ave runs Nurses Night every Thursday: show a hospital or office ID for free mini nachos, with happy hour pricing all day and $9 draft margaritas. For an after-shift drink any weekday, The Crooked Knife and Paddy Reilly’s are both discounting from 11am, and El Parador on E 34th runs a cocktail hour from 4 to 6pm.
Which Kips Bay bars are open late?
Fitzgerald’s Pub (336 3rd Ave) and Molly’s Shebeen (287 3rd Ave) both run 11am to 4am, seven days. The Factory 380 and Common Country go to 4am Thursday to Saturday. Banc Cafe serves food until 2am and Blue Haven East is open to 4am. Street Taco reopens its happy hour at 10pm on weeknights.
Which Kips Bay bars have closed recently?
Several, and some guides have not caught up. The Abbey Tavern (354 3rd Ave) closed in January 2025 after about 60 years, Coppola’s East (378 3rd Ave) closed in October 2025 after 28 years, and Handcraft Kitchen & Cocktails (367 3rd Ave), Cask Bar & Kitchen (167 E 33rd) and Hill and Bay (581 2nd Ave) are all gone. The Water Club on the East River closed in 2024. Several sites still publish happy hour times for those bars, which is worth knowing before you plan an evening around one.
Is Kips Bay the same as Murray Hill?
No, though almost every other guide blurs them. Kips Bay runs roughly E 23rd to E 34th, from Lexington east to the East River; Murray Hill picks up above E 34th. This page follows the Third Avenue spine, which means a couple of listings at the southern end sit right on the Gramercy line — we would rather tell you that than pretend the border is clean. For above 34th, see our Murray Hill happy hour guide.
Last updated: 11 August 2026. Every deal on this page was checked against the venue’s own menu, site or ordering page before publication. Deals and hours change — confirm with the venue before you go. Spot something out of date? Let us know.
