Hidden bars & speakeasies in New York City
Looking for hidden bars & speakeasies in New York City? These 11 are the genuinely strange ones — McSorley's Old Ale House, House of Wax Bar, Untermyer Gardens (Walled Persian Garden & Vista) and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of New York City they'd never find on their own.
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McSorley's Old Ale House
New York's oldest Irish saloon, pouring since 1854 and a men-only bar until a lawsuit forced it to admit wome…
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House of Wax Bar
Tucked past the ticket booth of the Alamo Drafthouse, this dim bar is built around more than 100 antique anat…
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Untermyer Gardens (Walled Persian Garden & Vista)
A Gilded Age industrialist's obsession survives behind a high stone wall: a quadrilateral Indo-Persian charba…
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Attaboy
There is no sign and no menu. You ring the buzzer at an unmarked metal door with a small "AB" where a peephol…
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Apothéke
Tucked on the crook of Doyers Street, the city's old "Bloody Angle," this bar is styled after a 19th-century…
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The Back Room
You enter through a gate marked for the "Lower East Side Toy Company," walk down an alley, and climb a flight…
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Please Don't Tell (PDT)
To get in you walk into Crif Dogs, a grungy hot dog joint, step into a vintage wooden phone booth, and pick u…
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Patent Pending
By day the storefront is Patent Coffee, an ordinary espresso bar; after 5pm a door behind the menu-board wall…
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Mace
Founded by globe-trotting bartender Nico de Soto, Mace builds every signature cocktail around a single handpi…
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The Office of Mr. Moto
This unmarked storefront hides a Victorian-era mailbox with a pin pad; reservation holders receive a cipher l…
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Nitehawk Cinema (Williamsburg)
A dine-in repertory theater where servers slip food and cocktails to your seat in the dark while the film rol…