The Delancey
It’s a fine day outside, people, and the best seats at your favorite alfresco boozing spots wait for no one. Click through for a list of ten outdoor and rooftop bars at which you could be wasting away your youth right now. Right. Now.
The (rather small) big daddy of seasonal outdoor bars has finally opened.
Picnic tables and a dozen stellar drafts are the draw at this shaded Crown Heights beer garden.
3. Quarter Bar
Quarter Bar’s key allure: You can bring your own meat to toss on the grill.
Raspberry lemonade is a fittingly old-fashioned libation for an al fresco bar sporting mahogany rocking chairs.
5. The Delancey
The roof goes off at this downtown party house sporting the finest view on the LES.
6. Dumont
Forget the artfully scuffed interior—the seats to covet are in the leafy garden.
The friendly, neighborhood vibe at this outdoor spot makes its seasonal run hotly anticipated by Fort Greene locals.
Take in the Red Hook waterfront over a Sixpoint ale on Rocky’s spacious roof.
9. 230 Fifth
Proximity to Murray Hill means a frat quotient at this rooftop bar—keep your eyes focused on the quieting midtown vista instead.
10. Hell Gate Social
Open-air movies screen on balmy Sunday nights at this sleek Astoria boite.
The Frying Pan didn’t make it? Does this mean you haven’t gotten drunk and wandered around the bowels of an old ship, dangerously close to hot engine parts? You haven’t even tried to fornicate in one of the many musty crew cabins? This list is fixed!
Only two bars in NYC (Manhattan) you are going to have to spin off another magazine and call it Time Out Brooklyn. Get a born and bred NYer to write some articles rather than Brooklyn living transplants.
As I see it you have a hard time counting…
“Born and Bred NYer”, huh - I guess Massapequa IS technically in New York State…
Preach on, “As I see it”. TONY has really turned into Time Out Brooklyn.
I may get some flack for this, but how can you leave out the Bohemian Beer Hall. It is THE outdoor beer garden in the city. It’s opening basically signals the start of nice weather.
I have to concur with Mark on his point that the Bohemian Beer Garden in Astoria is the summer place to be and well worth the brief trip from Manhattan. One can spend hours there without feeling a need to change venues. Harry’s Water Taxi in LIC also deserves an honorable mention as well.
As a true “born & bred NY’er” myself, I think you all forget that Brooklyn is part of New York City… But please, feel free not to come to Gowanus Yacht Club or Habana Outpost. Your loss, and my gain for less stuffy stuck up people ruining the awesome atmosphere…and both are right off train stops too.
Brooklyn IS part of NY, fools.
More people in BK than in Manhattan.
For a really charming and intimate spot - Black Rabbit in Greenpoint has it.
Yes Brooklyn is New York but it would be nice to occasionally get a few more listings within Manhattan. Yes BK has cooler spots but at least give us a few ideas for Manhattan. It is really becomming Time Out Brooklyn. There are many spots in NYC worth mentioning
i agree stopped buying time-out as it seems to feature more of brooklyn
What’s with all the Brooklyn hang-outs on this list? Can only concur with Ralph, Time Out Brooklyn is more like it.
Agree - too much Brooklyn, as nice as it may be. The writers must just all live there…
I guess you manhattanites are too busy working longer hours to pay for your address to realize that there are more outdoor spaces in the outer boroughs, hence more (and better) outdoor drinking spots. This isn’t a comprehensive list, it’s a top ten.