278licensed bars, restaurants & music venues#7 of 24 guides
164night spots per km²#5 of 24 for density
63bars, lounges & taverns37 per km²
1subway stations with trains all nightlines A, E
The night here
Ninth Avenue in the 40s and 50s is the heart of Hell’s Kitchen: it has more licensed venues than any other single street in these guides, almost all of them restaurants and bars in five-story walk-ups. Tenth Avenue and West 46th Street, the block known as Restaurant Row, add more. The area fills before 8 p.m. with theater-goers and again later with locals.
Hell’s Kitchen is also one of the city’s main LGBTQ nightlife neighborhoods. At night the A and E keep running on Eighth Avenue (the C stops), and Times Square’s stations are a short walk east.
When it gets loud
552 complaints about loud music or parties at bars, clubs and other businesses were made to 311 from here in the last 12 months (325 per km², #9 of 24). 65% came in between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m., and 56% on Friday and Saturday nights.
Each row is an evening running into the next morning (the Saturday row ends Sunday at noon). Darker = more complaints. Source: NYC 311 service requests, “Noise – Commercial: Loud Music/Party”.
What’s licensed here
Licence type
Active licences
Bars, lounges & taverns
63
Restaurants (liquor or wine)
213
Cafés & eateries (beer/wine)
14
Cabarets & music venues
2
Hotels
15
Theatres
5
Caterers & vessels
17
Streets with the most licensed night spots: 9 Ave (90), 10 Ave (33), W 46 St (29), W 51 St (11).
On-premises licences active today in the New York State Liquor Authority’s list, placed by their published coordinates. A licence is not a guarantee a venue is open, or open late; New York venues may serve until 4 a.m.
After Dark
