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Nightlife in New York City

475 clubs, live music venues and late-night spots in New York City.

Ranked with the travel guide's picks and well-known places first. Showing the top 40 of 475.

Village Vanguard, New York City
Photo: Freimut Bahlo, CC BY-SA 3.0 (licence)

Nightlife in New York City

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    Village Vanguard

    The Village Vanguard is a jazz club at Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City. The club was opened on February 22, 1935, by Max Gordon. Originally, the club presented folk music and beat poetry, but it became primarily a jazz music venue in 1957.

    Closed · opens 7 pmWi-Fi

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    The Bitter End

    The Bitter End is a 230-person capacity nightclub, coffeehouse and folk music venue in New York City's Greenwich Village. It opened in 1961 at 147 Bleecker Street under the auspices of owner Fred Weintraub. The club changed its name to The Other End in June 1975.

    Closed · opens 7 pmLimited wheelchair access

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    Webster Hall

    Webster Hall is a nightclub and concert venue located at 125 East 11th Street, between Third and Fourth avenues, in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City. It is one of New York City's most historically significant theater and event halls, having hosted social events of all types since the club's construction in 1886 as a "hall for hire". Its current incarnation was opened in 1992 by the Ballinger brothers, with a capacity of 1,400, providing its traditional role as well as for corporate events, and for a recording studio.

    "According to schedule"Wheelchair accessible

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    Smalls Jazz Club

    Smalls Jazz Club is a jazz club at 183 West 10th Street, Greenwich Village, New York City. Established in 1994, it earned a reputation in the 1990s as a "hotbed for New York's jazz talent" with a "well-deserved reputation as one of the best places in the city to see rising talent in the New York jazz scene". Its music is characterized as "modern versions of bebop and hard bop".

    Closed · opens 7 pm

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    Comedy Cellar

    The Comedy Cellar is a comedy club in Manhattan where stand-up comics perform; it is sometimes referred to as the "Harvard of comedy clubs".

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    Cherry Lane Theatre

    The Cherry Lane Theatre is the oldest continuously running off-Broadway theater in New York City. The theater is located at 38 Commerce Street between Barrow and Bedford Streets in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. The Cherry Lane Theatre contains a 167-seat main stage and a 60-seat studio.

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    Duane Park

    Duane Park is a small, triangular public urban park located in the diamond of the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The park is bordered by Hudson Street to the east and branches of Duane Street on its north and south sides. It was originally laid out by Calvert Vaux.

    Open now · closes 1 am tomorrow

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    Bowery Ballroom

    The Bowery Ballroom is a live music venue at 6 Delancey Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The venue has enjoyed a fabled reputation among musicians as well as audiences. In 2013, industry insiders polled by Rolling Stone magazine named it the best club in America, describing it as "both intimate and grand, with consistently great sound and sightlines, and touches of old-school class." Consequence of Sound named it the second-best music venue in the United States.

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    Mercury Lounge

    The Mercury Lounge is a live music venue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Like its brother venue The Bowery Ballroom, The Mercury Lounge is celebrated as an iconic indie venue due to its acoustics, its fostering and even launching of upcoming artists, and its no-frills, rock n' roll presentation. It has made numerous top-ten lists over the years including that of Billboard Magazine.

    Closed · opens 5:30 pmLimited wheelchair access

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    Daryl Roth Theater

    The Daryl Roth Theatre is an off-Broadway performance space at 101 East 15th Street, at the northeast corner of the intersection with Union Square East, near Union Square in Manhattan, New York City. The theater, which opened in 1998, is housed in the four-story Union Square Savings Bank building, which was designed by Henry Bacon and built between 1905 and 1907. The original structure, a New York City landmark, houses a theater that can accommodate 300 seated or 499 standing patrons.

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    Irving Plaza

    Irving Plaza is a ballroom-style music venue located within the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was featured on the Complex City Guide list of "50 Best Concert Venues of America" in 2013.

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    55 bar

    The 55 Bar was a bar and jazz club located at 55 Christopher Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The bar was established in 1919 and operated as a speakeasy during the Prohibition era. The bar began jazz performances in 1983.

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    St. Ann's Warehouse

    St. Ann's Warehouse is a performing arts organization in Brooklyn, New York City. It began when St.

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    Gramercy Theatre

    The Gramercy Theatre is a music venue in New York City. It is located in the Gramercy neighborhood of Manhattan, on 127 East 23rd Street. Built in 1937 as the Gramercy Park Theatre, it is owned and operated by Live Nation as one of their two concert halls in New York City, the other being the nearby Irving Plaza.

    Built 1937

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    Joe's Pub at the Public

    Joe's Pub, one of the six performance spaces within The Public Theater, is a music venue and restaurant that hosts live performances across genres and arts, ranging from cabaret to modern dance to world music. It is located at the Astor Library Building at 425 Lafayette Street near Astor Place in Manhattan, New York City. It is named after Joseph Papp, the theatrical producer who established the New York Shakespeare Festival, The Public Theater and the free Shakespeare in the Park program in Central Park.

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    Le Poisson Rouge

    (Le) Poisson Rouge (often referred to as LPR) is a music venue and multimedia art cabaret in New York City founded in 2008 by Justin Kantor and David Handler on the former site of the Village Gate at 158 Bleecker Street. The performance space was designed and engineered by Walters-Storyk Design Group (WSDG). It has become known for its focus on artistry, bringing contemporary classical music into the club setting, and offering a variety of set ups so that a seated classical performance can be followed by a standing set by a rock band or a DJ. Responding to a performance of Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time featuring pianist Bruce Brubaker at LPR, The Wall Street Journal…

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    Arlene's Grocery

    Arlene's Grocery is a bar and music venue located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It is located at 95 Stanton Street between Orchard St and Ludlow St. The venue was opened by Shane Doyle and two partners in 1995.

    Closed · opens 4 pmWheelchair accessible

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    Spring Street Park

    Spring Street Park is a small triangular park in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of Hudson Square in New York City. The park is bounded by Spring Street on the north, Broome Street on the south, Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) on the east, and on the west by a narrow two-block street considered to be a spur of Sixth Avenue. As a pedestrian plaza, the triangle was previously known as SoHo Square.

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    Rockwood Music Hall

    Rockwood Music Hall was a music venue at 196 Allen Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Owner Ken Rockwood, a.k.a. "The Professor", opened the establishment in 2005 as a small bar and music venue.

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    Copper & Oak

    Serves hundreds of whiskeys and other liquors in a lean space with stand-up and sit-down bars.

    Closed · opens 5 pmWheelchair accessible

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    Analogue

    Analogue is a highly rated cocktail and whiskey bar in the heart of West Village, known for craft cocktails, a 300+ bottle whiskey collection, and a seasonal small-bites menu in a relaxed, speakeasy-style setting.

    Closed · opens 4 pm

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    Banzarbar

    small upstaris cocktail bar accessed through Freemans restaurant

    Closed · opens 6 pm

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    The Django

    The subterranean jazz club, with its vaulted ceilings and exposed brick walls, was modeled after the boîtes of Paris. The venue consists of two cocktail bars, open dining space & a stage for live performances.

    Closed · opens 6:30 pm

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    Superbueno

    Mexican-American cocktail bar with beer, wine, non-alcoholic cocktails, and a substantial food menu

    Closed · opens 4 pm

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    The Garret

    upstairs speakeasy cocktail bar accessed from within Five Guys

    Closed · opens 5 pm

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    The Greene Space at WNYC/WQXR

    Essential conversations and intimate performances, live from New York and heard everywhere on WNYC and WQXR.

  27. EatAmerican restaurant

    Hotel Chantelle

    92 Ludlow Street

    Closed · opens 5 pmTakeaway · Outdoor seating · Vegan options

  28. EatJapanese restaurant

    Bar Moga

    128 West Houston Street

    Closed · opens 5 pmVegan options

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    Bowery Palace

    327 Bowery

    Closed · opens 5 pmLive music

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    Ferns

    166 1st Avenue

    Closed · opens 4 pmTakeaway

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    Henrietta Hudson

    Manhattan’s number-one lesbian bar for twenty five years.

    Closed · opens 5 pmWheelchair accessible

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    Motel No Tell

    212 Avenue A

    Closed · opens 4 pmWheelchair accessible

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    Mr Purple

    180 Orchard St

    Open now · closes 2 am tomorrowOutdoor seating

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    Orient Express

    325 West 11th Street

    Open now · closes 3 pmWi-Fi

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    The Summit

    133 Avenue C

    Hours unclear (cafe)Outdoor seating

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    11th Street Bar

    510 East 11th Street

    Open now · closes 2 am tomorrowLive music

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    Caveat

    Speakeasy stage for playful, intelligent nightlife.

    Closed · opens 7 pmWi-Fi

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    Dream Baby Dream

    A bar and cocktail parlor.

    Closed · opens 4 pmWheelchair accessible

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    Nobody Told Me

    188 Front Street

    Closed · opens 3 pmWi-Fi

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    Terra Blues

    149 Bleecker Street

    Closed · opens 6:30 pmOutdoor seating

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