Sports Bar Near NYU, 2026: Ten Bars Within 11 Minutes of the Arch

Greenwich Village · Near NYU · Updated October 14, 2026

• Ten bars, 3 to 11 minutes from the Arch
• Websites read October 14, 2026
• Giants, Jets, Knicks and Rangers lists checked
• Opening times for 1:00 PM kickoffs
• Heated backyard garden at 118 Christopher Street

The blocks around Washington Square are full of bars, and plenty of them have a television over the register. That does not make them a place to watch a game. For this page a bar had to say, on its own website, that sports are part of what it does, or appear on a team’s official list of bars. Ten passed that test inside an eleven-minute walk of the Arch.

Four of the ten have a West 3rd Street address, and two more, Off the Wagon and Wicked Willy’s, are a block away on MacDougal and Bleecker, which makes the stretch between Sixth Avenue and Broadway the closest thing NYU has to a sports row. Down the Hatch is just over Sixth Avenue on West 4th Street, and the other three are on Waverly Place, University Place and the Bowery. We start every walk at the Arch because it is the one spot every student, parent and visitor can find, and we finish with our own room at 118 Christopher Street, which is further away than most and says so.

Sports bar near NYU: the ten bars, nearest first

Every walk below starts under the Washington Square Arch and follows the fastest route Google Maps offered on foot. The middle column quotes the bar, not us.

The cluster is tight. The Half Pint and Amity Hall Downtown are a few doors apart at 76 and 80 West 3rd Street, 3 Sheets is further west at number 134, Off the Wagon is around the corner on MacDougal, and Rocco’s sits at the Broadway end of the same street. If the first room is full, another is rarely more than a couple of minutes away.

Who is open for your kickoff

Most games near campus fall into three slots: Saturday afternoon, the 1:00 PM Sunday window of the NFL, and a weeknight start around 7:00 PM. The table answers the first two; on weeknights most of these rooms open between noon and 3:00 PM.

Two rows deserve a second look. Josie Woods opens at 2:00 PM on Sundays, so a 1:00 PM kickoff is an hour old by the time its door opens, and on Saturdays it waits until 3:00 PM. And our own Sunday opening is 1:00 PM on the dot, which is fine for the late window and tight for the early one: come at one and the first drive is already under way.

At the other end of the night, three bars print a 4:00 AM close every night of the week: Off the Wagon, Down the Hatch and Wicked Willy’s. 3 Sheets and Phebe’s get there on Fridays and Saturdays, and Josie Woods from Thursday to Saturday. Of the rooms that print a closing time, we are the earliest to shut.

Which bar for your team

Teams keep their own lists of bars, and four of those lists reach the streets around the Arch. We read each one on October 14, 2026.

• New York Giants. The Giants Bar Network includes three bars on this page: Three Sheets Saloon at 134 West 3rd Street, Off The Wagon at 109 MacDougal Street and Down The Hatch at 179 West 4th Street. The team’s 2026 watch-party schedule puts its Week 7 party, Giants at Texans on Sunday, October 25, at 3 Sheets for a 1:00 PM kickoff. Our Giants bar guide for Brooklyn covers the rest of the network.
• New York Jets. The Jets Bar Network lists Amity Hall Downtown at 80 West 3rd Street and Half Pint at 76 West 3rd Street, a few doors apart. It also lists Bleecker Street Bar at 648 Broadway, nine minutes from the Arch, which does not mention sports on its own website. More in our Jets bar guide.
• New York Knicks. The Knicks’ Tap Takeovers list, presented by Michelob ULTRA, names Amity Hall Downtown and Rocco’s Sports & Recreation at 1 West 3rd Street among its Manhattan bars.
• New York Rangers. The Rangers’ Tap Takeover page lists Rocco’s and 3 Sheets. The same page still invites fans to enjoy “the Centennial season”, which points to 2025-26, the team’s hundredth season, so treat the list as possibly last season’s until the team updates it. Our page on where to watch NHL hockey in the West Village has the October schedule.
• Cincinnati Bengals. Phebe’s, at the corner of East 4th Street and the Bowery, runs a page calling itself “the only verified Bengals bar in town” and says it takes no reservations on game days.

If your team is not here, the rooms with the most screens are the safest bet for a channel nobody else is asking for. Call first and ask for the game by name.

Screens: who gives a number

Only three of the ten bars put a number on their screens, and those numbers come straight from their own pages:

• 3 Sheets: 24 big screens, plus an upstairs room called the Lido Deck with a skylight and a fireplace.
• Off the Wagon: 17 TVs and a 100-inch screen across two floors, showing what its site calls local and out-of-market sport.
• Josie Woods Pub: 14 HD TVs, plus a pool and darts area.

Rocco’s promises “premier stadium-style viewing” without a count. Amity Hall Downtown, Down the Hatch, Reservoir, The Half Pint, Wicked Willy’s and Phebe’s print no number either. Neither do we: The Beer Garage has never published a screen count, so we will not invent one here.

Happy hours printed near campus

Six of the eleven websites print a happy hour with times, and a seventh prints a weekday special. Here they are, as printed:

• Off the Wagon: Monday to Friday, noon to 7:00 PM, $2 off the entire bar.
• Down the Hatch: Monday to Friday, 2:00 to 7:00 PM, half off all drinks.
• 3 Sheets: Monday to Friday until 7:00 PM, a half-priced bar with exclusions.
• Amity Hall Downtown: select cocktails and mixed drinks at $6 every weekday until 7:00 PM.
• Josie Woods Pub: Monday to Friday, 3:00 to 7:00 PM, with $5 Bud Light pints, $6 Yuengling and rotating drafts, $6 well drinks and $12 buffalo wings.
• Phebe’s: Monday to Friday, 4:00 to 8:00 PM, with $5 bottled beers, $6 drafts, $8 glasses of pinot grigio, pinot noir or rosé and $10 select cocktails.
• Rocco’s: a weekday special it calls Winning Time, Monday to Friday 4:00 to 6:00 PM; the page we read did not list the items.

The Half Pint’s site has a happy hour section, but its times and prices were not in text we could read. Our own ordering menu shows a happy hour drinks list at $8 without the hours, so phone 646-490-4301 if that matters to you. For a 7:00 PM game, note that most of these deals stop at 7:00 PM, just as play starts; Phebe’s runs an hour longer.

Eleven minutes west: our room, honestly

The Beer Garage West Village is at 118 Christopher Street, eleven minutes and half a mile from the Arch along West Washington Place. It is a sports bar with the game on in the front room and a heated backyard garden behind it, and our ordering menu lists 37 beer and cider lines, a beer flight and three zero-proof drinks at $10.

As a sports bar near NYU, it is not the closest room to campus and it is not the loudest. We open at 3:00 PM from Monday to Thursday, 2:00 PM on Fridays, noon on Saturdays and 1:00 PM on Sundays, and we close at 11:00 PM, or midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. No team keeps us on its list. What we offer instead is a room where you can hear the person next to you, a garden for the walk-off, and the 1 train three minutes from the door at Christopher St-Stonewall. Call 646-490-4301 and ask which game is on before you walk over; our guide to the bars on Christopher Street covers our neighbors.

Four picks for four kinds of game

Each of these is good at one thing, judged on what its own website promises.

Five things to check first

1. Every hour here is a reading, not a guarantee. We copied them on October 14, 2026. Big games and holidays move them, so call ahead.
2. Some sites contradict themselves. The Half Pint prints an “11:30 PM” opening from Tuesday to Friday, which looks like a typo for 11:30 AM. Off the Wagon says its kitchen closes at midnight in one place and stays open until 4:00 AM in another. Amity Hall’s page lists a Monday kitchen close of “11am”.
3. Game days change the rules. Phebe’s takes no reservations when the Bengals play, and 3 Sheets books through Instagram messages rather than a form.
4. Team lists age. The Rangers’ page still speaks of the Centennial season. Lists are updated by the teams, not the bars, so confirm with the bar.
5. Close is not a time. Reservoir prints “to close” and no hour. If you need to know when last call comes, ask.

Find your bar

Pick when the game is, then what matters most. Each of the sixteen answers names a room from this page.

How we checked

We listed every bar within about eleven minutes’ walk of the Washington Square Arch that either calls itself a sports bar or describes showing games on its own website, plus any bar that a team’s official list places in the area. On October 14, 2026 we opened each bar’s website, including pages that only load in a browser, and copied its own words about sport, its hours and its happy hour. Customer reviews that some sites display were ignored. We then read the Giants, Jets, Knicks and Rangers lists, and timed each walk from the Arch in Google Maps.

Frequently asked questions

What is the closest sports bar to NYU?

By walking time from the Washington Square Arch, The Half Pint at 76 West 3rd Street is closest at three minutes, followed by Amity Hall Downtown at 80 West 3rd Street and Josie Woods Pub at 11 Waverly Place, both four minutes away.

Which sports bar near NYU has the most TVs?

Among the bars that publish a number, 3 Sheets at 134 West 3rd Street leads with 24 big screens. Off the Wagon at 109 MacDougal Street lists 17 TVs and a 100-inch screen, and Josie Woods Pub lists 14 HD TVs.

Where do Giants fans watch near NYU?

The Giants Bar Network includes 3 Sheets, Off The Wagon and Down The Hatch, all within six minutes of the Arch. The team’s Week 7 watch party, Giants at Texans on Sunday, October 25, 2026, is at 3 Sheets at 1:00 PM.

Which sports bars near NYU are open for 1:00 PM NFL games on Sunday?

All of the bars on our list open by 1:00 PM on Sunday except Josie Woods Pub, which opens at 2:00 PM. Amity Hall Downtown, Rocco’s, The Half Pint, Wicked Willy’s, Phebe’s and Reservoir open at 11:00 AM; 3 Sheets, Off the Wagon and Down the Hatch at noon; The Beer Garage at 1:00 PM.

Which bars near NYU are open until 4:00 AM?

Off the Wagon, Down the Hatch and Wicked Willy’s print a 4:00 AM close every night. 3 Sheets and Phebe’s reach 4:00 AM on Fridays and Saturdays, and Josie Woods from Thursday to Saturday.

Is The Beer Garage near NYU?

Yes, eleven minutes on foot from the Washington Square Arch, at 118 Christopher Street. It is a sports bar with a heated backyard garden that closes at 11:00 PM from Sunday to Thursday and at midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.

The verdict

For a sports bar near NYU, start on West 3rd Street. 3 Sheets and Off the Wagon print the most screens and both sit on the Giants’ own list, Amity Hall Downtown covers Jets and Knicks fans and opens at 11:00 AM on weekends, and Down the Hatch prints the deepest weekday discount, half off all drinks from 2:00 to 7:00 PM. Josie Woods is the one to avoid for an early Sunday kickoff. When you would rather hear your friends than the crowd, walk eleven minutes west to 118 Christopher Street, and plan to finish by 11:00 PM.

Sources and references

• The Beer Garage: beergarageny.com (West Village hours in the site footer, read October 14, 2026) and our West Village online ordering menu (beer list, zero-proof and happy hour drinks, read October 13, 2026).
• The Half Pint, Amity Hall Downtown (hours page and weekly happenings) and Josie Woods Pub (home and specials pages), own websites, read October 14, 2026.
• 3 Sheets, Off the Wagon and Down the Hatch, own websites, read October 14, 2026.
• Wicked Willy’s, Rocco’s Sports & Rec (New York location page, about page and weekly events), Reservoir and Phebe’s Tavern & Grill (Bengals, specials and hours pages), own websites, read October 14, 2026.
• Giants Bar Network, Jets Bar Network, Knicks Tap Takeovers and Rangers Tap Takeover locations, read October 14, 2026.
• Google Maps walking mode from the Washington Square Arch to each address, timed October 14, 2026.
• Washington Square News, “Your NYU sports bar, based on your favorite NFL team”, October 7, 2025, used only as a cross-check.

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