How to Enjoy a Late Happy Hour in Manhattan's Lower East Side

Happy Hour is great for those of us who work 9 to 5, but is just out of the grasp of the drinkers who might get off the job a little bit later. Fortunately for those thirsty New Yorkers and anyone who is looking for a drinking bargain, the Lower East Side has an abundance of late night happy hour spots!

Things You'll Need

  • Metro Card
  • Cash
  • A legal ID
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Instructions

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      7pm: Take the F or V train to 2nd Ave and walk down E. Houston St 8 blocks till you reach # 317 on the corner of Attorney. Here you will find the "Champagne of Dive Bars" , the Parkside Lounge. You can indulge in $3 well drinks or Bud, Bud Light, and Miller High Life bottles, $12 pitchers of PBR, Miller Lite, and Yuengling, as well as $15 pitchers of Blue Moon, Brooklyn Lager, Coney Island Lager, Guinness, IPA, Stella, UFO, and Magic Hat, until 8pm.

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      8pm: Head out of Parkside and take a left. Walk three blocks west to Norfolk, and take another left. Walk until you reach Rivington and take a right. Stop at 123 Rivington AKA Welcome to the Johnson's, a bar which offers $2 buds and $2 well drinks (along with free Doritos!) until 9pm.

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      9pm: Walk one more block west on Rivington, crossing over Essex St. to reach # 110, Verlaine. Until 10pm you can enjoy $5 Hanoi Lychee Martinis, Sangrias, Vietnamese Bloody Marys, as well as $5 red and white wine, well drinks, and 44# Yuengling bottles.

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      10pm: No bar in it's right mind would have discount prices as the prime hours for drinking, so from 10-12am cool your jets by either: Drinking at Motor City (127 Ludlow- Walk one block West to Ludlow) with it's moderate prices, Getting a to-go Margarita at El Sombrero (108 Stanton- walk to Ludlow and take a right up one block to Stanton) to avoid bar prices, or sobering up at the Sunshine Cinemas (143 East Houston- Walk up Ludlow and take a left on E. Houston for 4 blocks.)

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      12am: Make your way to Kelly's of New York, a Lower East Side sports bar that offers a late night happy hour of $2 bottle of Miller High Life and $2 Kamikaze shots until 2am. Kelly's is at 12 Ave A, which is the north side of Essex St. Cross to the north side of E. Houston and turn up Ave A for half a block.

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      2am: Take a cab home.

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