Bars on Christopher Street, 2026: Ten Doors From East to West

Christopher Street · West Village · Updated October 13, 2026

• Ten doors, numbers 8 to 185
• Nine websites read October 13, 2026
• Hours copied as printed
• Walks timed from number 118
• Heated backyard garden behind number 118

Most lists of bars on Christopher Street are really lists of the West Village with one famous name on top. This one is literal. A bar is here only if its address says Christopher Street, and the order is the order you would pass them walking west from Greenwich Avenue toward the river.

For each door we went to the bar’s own website and copied what it says about itself: what kind of room it is, when it opens, when it closes and whether it prints a happy hour. One bar has no website we could read, and we say so. The walking times start at The Beer Garage at 118 Christopher Street, because that is the door we know best.

Bars on Christopher Street, door by door

House numbers rise as you walk west, so this table runs from the Greenwich Avenue end to the river end. The description column is each bar’s own wording, not ours.

Eight of the ten fall into two clusters: numbers 53 to 75 at the Sheridan Square end, and numbers 102 to 118 around our own door. Pieces is the outlier to the east and Rockbar the outlier to the west, toward the river.

Who opens first and who closes last

Read as a timetable, the street has an order to it. There is somewhere to sit from noon, and three doors that do not shut until 4:00 AM.

Two things stand out. First, a weekday lunchtime drink on this street means Kettle of Fish or TALEA, because nobody else has unlocked yet. Second, we are one of the early closers. Only TALEA shuts before we do, and only from Sunday to Thursday. If your night is still going at midnight, the 4:00 AM doors are all four minutes east of us.

Happy hours the street prints

Four of the nine websites mention a happy hour. Only two give you enough to plan around.

• The Duplex, number 61. Monday to Thursday, 4:00 to 7:00 PM, with well cocktails, beer and wine at $8 each.
• Rockbar, number 185. Monday to Friday, 5:00 to 7:00 PM, two for one on beer, well and call liquor.
• The Stonewall Inn, number 53. Its site says happy hour runs Monday to Friday and stops there. No hours and no prices were on the page we read.
• The Beer Garage, number 118. Our ordering menu has a happy hour drinks list at $8, covering beer, wine, prosecco and a few simple mixed drinks, but we do not publish the hours it applies. Phone 646-490-4301 and ask.

What each room is for

The addresses are close together. The rooms are not alike at all.

History you can drink in

The Stonewall Inn describes itself as a National Historic Landmark and the site of the 1969 riots, and it has poured its own Stonewall Inn IPA, made with Brooklyn Brewery, since 2017. Ty’s dates itself to 1972, three years after those riots. Pieces gives 1993 as its start. Kettle of Fish is older than all of them, established in 1950 on MacDougal Street, and its site says it has moved twice since and counts Jack Kerouac and Bob Dylan among the people who drank there.

Music and shows

Cellar Dog prints “Jazz at 7pm Every Night”, running to 11:00 PM from Sunday to Wednesday and to 2:00 AM from Thursday to Saturday. The Duplex calls itself a piano bar and cabaret theater. Pieces promises drag shows nightly, and The Stonewall Inn’s homepage carries a running list of shows and karaoke nights.

Games

Cellar Dog has billiards, ping pong and shuffleboard, all first come, first served. Kettle of Fish has two dart boards that are open to the public every night except league nights, plus two pinball machines.

Beer and a game on the screen

TALEA is a brewery taproom with flights, cocktails and coffee. We are the sports bar: screens in the front room, 37 beer and cider lines and a beer flight on the menu, and a garden out back. Kettle of Fish deserves a mention here too, because its site tells Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Badgers fans to call for early opening times on game days.

Getting to the street

Two stations carry the street’s name. The Christopher St-Stonewall stop on the 1 train is three minutes and 0.1 mile from our door, at the Sheridan Square end, close to numbers 53 to 75. The PATH station for New Jersey is on the street itself, two minutes and 0.1 mile west of us.

End to end the walk is short. Pieces at number 8 is six minutes east of us and Rockbar at number 185 is five minutes west, so the whole run is about eleven minutes without stops.

Around the corner, not on the street

Some of the best-known rooms near Christopher Street have other addresses, which is why they are missing from the table. Employees Only is at 510 Hudson Street, 348 feet from our door. Marie’s Crisis is on Grove Street. Both are in our guide to unique bars in the West Village, and the priced zero-proof drinks at Employees Only are in our list of mocktails in the West Village.

One door on the street itself is in the table with a blank beside it. The Hangar Bar is at number 115, across from us, and we found no website of its own that loads, so we print no hours for it. Walk over and look at the door.

Number 118, honestly

The Beer Garage is the only room on this list that calls itself a sports bar. The front has screens with the game on, and the back opens into a heated garden. The ordering menu lists 37 beer and cider lines and three zero-proof drinks at $10. The kitchen is a standard one. We open at 3:00 PM from Monday to Thursday, 2:00 PM on Fridays, noon on Saturdays and 1:00 PM on Sundays.

Here is what we are not. We are not a late bar: last orders come well before the 4:00 AM rooms have hit their stride, because we close at 11:00 PM on most nights and midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. We have no stage, no piano and no pool table. And we are not part of the street’s history in the way The Stonewall Inn, Ty’s or Kettle of Fish are. If any of those is what you came to Christopher Street for, go there first and come to us for the game.

Which door for which night

Four numbers, each good at one thing, described from what its own site says.

Before you go: five warnings

1. Hours change faster than websites. Everything here was read on October 13, 2026. Phone ahead for anything that matters.
2. A missing closing time is not a promise. Pieces prints when it opens and nothing about when it shuts.
3. Show nights fill up. Cellar Dog’s games are first come, first served, and The Stonewall Inn takes no reservations at all.
4. Game days bend the hours. Kettle of Fish opens early for some Packers and Badgers games, but only if you call to check which.
5. The street name is used loosely. Plenty of guides file Grove Street and Hudson Street rooms under Christopher Street. Check the address before you promise to meet someone there.

Find your door

Choose a time, then choose what you are after. Each of the sixteen answers points to a number on the street.

How we checked

We started with the street, not with a ranking. A bar qualified if its own website, or a listing where it has no site, gives a Christopher Street address, and we set the ten in house-number order. Restaurants with a bar counter were left out. Then we opened each bar’s website on October 13, 2026 and copied its description of itself, its hours and any happy hour, word for word where the table uses quotation marks.

Frequently asked questions

What bars are on Christopher Street?

Ten that we found, in door order: Pieces (8), The Stonewall Inn (53), Kettle of Fish (59), The Duplex (61), Cellar Dog (75), TALEA (102), Ty’s (114), Hangar Bar (115), The Beer Garage (118) and Rockbar (185).

Which bars on Christopher Street are open latest?

The Stonewall Inn, Kettle of Fish and The Duplex print a 4:00 AM close every night. Ty’s, Cellar Dog and Rockbar reach 4:00 AM on Fridays and Saturdays only.

Which bar on Christopher Street opens earliest?

Kettle of Fish at number 59 and TALEA at number 102 both open at noon every day. The Stonewall Inn opens at 1:00 PM on weekends, and The Beer Garage opens at noon on Saturdays.

Is there a sports bar on Christopher Street?

Yes. The Beer Garage at 118 Christopher Street is a sports bar with screens in the front room and a heated backyard garden. Kettle of Fish at number 59 also welcomes Packers fans, by its own website.

Where is there live music on Christopher Street?

Cellar Dog at number 75 prints jazz at 7:00 PM every night, and The Duplex at number 61 is a piano bar and cabaret theater open from 4:00 PM to 4:00 AM.

Which subway stop is closest to the bars on Christopher Street?

Christopher St-Stonewall on the 1 train, at the Sheridan Square end of the street, three minutes from number 118. The Christopher Street PATH station is on the street as well, two minutes west of number 118.

The verdict

Christopher Street packs ten bars into an eleven-minute walk, and almost none of them compete with each other. Go to number 53 for the landmark, number 59 for darts at an hour when everything else is shut, number 61 for a piano, number 75 for jazz and a pool table, and number 102 for a brewery’s own beer. Come to number 118 when there is a game you want to watch, and plan to be somewhere else by midnight.

Sources and references

• The Beer Garage: beergarageny.com (West Village hours in the site footer) and our West Village online ordering menu (beer list, zero-proof and happy hour drinks), read October 13, 2026.
• Pieces, The Stonewall Inn and Kettle of Fish, own websites, read October 13, 2026.
• The Duplex, Cellar Dog and TALEA (visit page), own websites, read October 13, 2026.
• Ty’s and Rockbar, own websites, read October 13, 2026.
• Google Maps walking mode from 118 Christopher Street to each address and to the Christopher Street PATH station, timed October 13, 2026; the walks to TALEA and to the 1 train were timed on September 23 and October 5, 2026.

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