{"id":548,"date":"2026-09-18T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/?p=548"},"modified":"2026-10-18T07:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:39:41","slug":"unique-bars-in-the-west-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/unique-bars-in-the-west-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Bars in the West Village: 9 One-of-a-Kind Rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.tbg-wrap{max-width:820px;margin:0 auto;font-family:Montserrat,-apple-system,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.75;color:#2b2b2b}.tbg-wrap p,.tbg-wrap li,.tbg-wrap td{color:#2b2b2b}.tbg-wrap a{color:#1e5fa8}.tbg-wrap a:visited{color:#1e5fa8}.tbg-wrap h2{font-size:23px;font-weight:700;color:#1b1b1f;line-height:1.3;margin:34px 0 12px}.tbg-wrap h3{font-size:18px;font-weight:600;color:#1b1b1f;margin:22px 0 8px}.tbg-eyebrow{font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.09em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8b5a2b;margin:0 0 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100%),url(\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_2353-800.webp\")}}\n.tbg-cta strong{color:#c98a2e}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"tbg-wrap\">\n<p class=\"tbg-eyebrow\">Neighborhood guide &middot; West Village, Manhattan &middot; Updated September 2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"tbg-hero\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Inside The Beer Garage in the West Village: exposed brick hung with New York license plates, a guitar on the wall, dark wood tables and chairs and a television in the corner\">\n<div class=\"tbg-hero-in\">\n<h2>Nine rooms you cannot find twice<\/h2>\n<p>A sing-along with no microphones, a jazz basement that has streamed every set since 2007, a landmark the city designated for its history, and a car-shop bar with a heated garden out back. These are the unique bars in the West Village, scored on what each one publishes about itself.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"tbg-badges\">\n<li class=\"tbg-amber\">9 bars, own-site facts only<\/li>\n<li>Walks from the 1 train<\/li>\n<li>Heated backyard garden (West Village)<\/li>\n<li>Two NYC locations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"tbg-authorbox\">\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"tbg-avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/marina-charny-owner-the-beer-garage.webp\" alt=\"Marina Charny, owner of The Beer Garage\" width=\"52\" height=\"52\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"object-fit:cover;padding:0\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Marina Charny<\/strong>, Owner, The Beer Garage<\/p>\n<p class=\"tbg-meta\">Published September 15, 2026 &middot; Updated September 28, 2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Most lists of unique bars in the West Village are cocktail lists with the word unique in the title. This one uses a stricter test: a bar makes the cut only if its own website describes something no other bar on the list has, and it is scored on that, on public historic designation, and on whether there is something you can only do there. We run one of the nine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/\">The Beer Garage<\/a> at 118 Christopher Street, and we score it the same way as the other eight, which is why it lands in the middle of the table and not at the top.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tbg-short\">\n<p><strong>The short version.<\/strong> The most one-of-a-kind of the unique bars in the West Village, by what each venue publishes, is Marie&#8217;s Crisis Cafe at 59 Grove Street, a cash-only show-tunes sing-along with no microphones in an 1839 building. Smalls Jazz Club, The Stonewall Inn and The Duplex follow. The Beer Garage on Christopher Street is the beer-and-a-game pick with a heated garden.<\/p>\n<p>Nine rooms, one rubric, every fact from the venue&#8217;s own site. That is the whole method behind this guide to the unique bars in the West Village.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tbg-toc\">\n<p>On this page<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#table\">The nine unique bars in the West Village, compared<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#history\">Which West Village bars are landmarks, and which just say so<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#do\">Things you can only do at these bars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#beer-garage\">Where The Beer Garage fits, honestly<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#hours\">Hours, walks and the 1 train<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#finder\">Which unique bar tonight?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#faq\">Frequently asked questions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#verdict\">Final verdict<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"table\">The nine unique bars in the West Village, compared<\/h2>\n<p>The nine unique bars in the West Village below each publish one thing on their own website that none of the other eight do, from a WPA-era etched glass mural to a fortune teller at the door, and the table scores that claim rather than our opinion of the room.<\/p>\n<p>The score is out of 10 and it is built from three parts, all explained in the methodology box near the end: up to 4 for a distinct feature the venue itself states, up to 3 for a historic designation by a public body or a documented founding date, and up to 3 for something you can only do there. The Local Pack for this query on September 15, 2026 was held by The Spaniard, Dante West Village and The Spot; The Spaniard and Dante are good bars that we left off because neither publishes a feature the others lack, and that is the test.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tbg-scroll\">\n<table>\n<caption>Unique bars in the West Village. What makes each one different is quoted or paraphrased from the venue&#8217;s own website, read September 15, 2026. Walks measured in Google Maps walking mode from the Christopher Street-Stonewall (1) station the same day. Score rubric: feature 0 to 4, history 0 to 3, only-here 0 to 3.<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Bar<\/th>\n<th>Address<\/th>\n<th>What its own site says makes it different<\/th>\n<th>Walk from the 1<\/th>\n<th>Score \/10<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mariescrisiscafe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Marie&#8217;s Crisis Cafe<\/a><\/td>\n<td>59 Grove Street<\/td>\n<td>Show-tunes-only sing-along piano bar with zero microphones, no cover, cash only; 1839 building, opened as a bar in 1929, WPA-era etched glass mural marking the site where Thomas Paine died<\/td>\n<td>1 minute<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smallslive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Smalls Jazz Club<\/a><\/td>\n<td>183 West 10th Street, basement<\/td>\n<td>Basement jazz club that has live-streamed its sets since 2007 and keeps an audio and video archive of every show; late jam sessions to 4:00 AM<\/td>\n<td>1 minute<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestonewallinnnyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">The Stonewall Inn<\/a><\/td>\n<td>53 Christopher Street<\/td>\n<td>Site of the 1969 uprising; individual New York City landmark since June 23, 2015; weekly drag, karaoke, bingo and piano nights across two floors; its own IPA with Brooklyn Brewery<\/td>\n<td>1 minute<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theduplex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">The Duplex<\/a><\/td>\n<td>61 Christopher Street<\/td>\n<td>Piano bar downstairs with singing bartenders and a cabaret theater upstairs; open mic every Tuesday; 4:00 PM to 4:00 AM daily<\/td>\n<td>1 minute<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehorsetavern1880.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">White Horse Tavern<\/a><\/td>\n<td>567 Hudson Street<\/td>\n<td>Pouring since 1880 and calls itself New York City&#8217;s second-oldest bar; literary landmark framing on its own site<\/td>\n<td>7 minutes<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.employeesonlynyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Employees Only<\/a><\/td>\n<td>510 Hudson Street<\/td>\n<td>Entered through a fortune teller&#8217;s storefront; opened in 2004 by five industry friends; late-night fare<\/td>\n<td>4 minutes<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Art Bar<\/a><\/td>\n<td>52 8th Avenue<\/td>\n<td>Back living room with couches and a working fireplace, a digital jukebox with thousands of songs, local art on the walls; over 35 years in the neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>8 minutes<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubbyholebar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Cubbyhole<\/a><\/td>\n<td>281 West 12th Street<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood queer bar since 1994 with a ceiling covered in hanging decorations and a customer-run jukebox<\/td>\n<td>7 minutes<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tbg-hl\">\n<td>The Beer Garage, West Village<\/td>\n<td>118 Christopher Street<\/td>\n<td>Car-shop room hung with license plates, a car grille on the garden wall, rotating New York craft beer, darts and the game on, and a heated backyard garden hidden behind the bar<\/td>\n<td>3 minutes<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Where the others win:<\/strong> Marie&#8217;s Crisis and The Duplex on singing, Smalls on live music every night, The Stonewall Inn on history that a city agency has certified, White Horse on age, Employees Only on cocktails, Art Bar and Cubbyhole on a late jukebox night. <strong>Skip The Beer Garage if<\/strong> you came to sing, to hear a set, or to stand where something happened; come if you want a pint of New York beer, a game on, and a garden with heaters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tbg-gf\">\n<p><strong>One kitchen note before the list.<\/strong> The Beer Garage in the West Village, Manhattan, has a standard kitchen, and its menu at 118 Christopher Street flags no dish as gluten-free. The 100 per cent gluten-free kitchen is the Park Slope, Brooklyn location at 148 5th Avenue, covered in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/gluten-free-sports-bar-in-nyc\/\">Brooklyn versus Manhattan guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"history\">Which West Village bars are landmarks, and which just say so<\/h2>\n<p>Only one of the unique bars in the West Village on this list is an individually designated New York City landmark: The Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, designated by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission on June 23, 2015, the first site the city landmarked primarily for its significance to LGBT history.<\/p>\n<p>That distinction matters because &#8220;historic&#8221; is the most overused word in lists of unique bars in the West Village. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/lpc\/downloads\/pdf\/stonewall_inn62315.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Landmarks Preservation Commission&#8217;s own press release<\/a> notes that Stonewall already sat inside the Greenwich Village Historic District, designated on April 29, 1969, months before the uprising. Most of the blocks on this list sit inside that district too, which protects buildings, not bars; a bar in a landmarked building is not itself a landmark.<\/p>\n<p>So the table gives full history points only to Stonewall, and partial points to venues with a documented date on their own site: White Horse Tavern&#8217;s 1880, Marie&#8217;s Crisis Cafe&#8217;s 1839 building and 1929 opening, Cubbyhole&#8217;s 1994, Art Bar&#8217;s 35 years, Employees Only&#8217;s 2004. The Beer Garage opened its West Village room after the original Park Slope garage and gets one history point, for the converted-garage idea it carried over the river, not for age.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tbg-scroll\">\n<table>\n<caption>Historic claims among the unique bars in the West Village, and who backs each one. NYC LPC facts from the Commission&#8217;s June 23, 2015 press release; every other date from the venue&#8217;s own website; all read September 15, 2026.<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Bar<\/th>\n<th>Claim<\/th>\n<th>Who says so<\/th>\n<th>History points (0 to 3)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>The Stonewall Inn<\/td>\n<td>Individual NYC landmark; site of the 1969 uprising<\/td>\n<td>NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, June 23, 2015<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Marie&#8217;s Crisis Cafe<\/td>\n<td>1839 building; bar opened 1929; Thomas Paine died on the site in 1809; WPA-era mural<\/td>\n<td>The bar&#8217;s own history page<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>White Horse Tavern<\/td>\n<td>Since 1880; New York City&#8217;s second-oldest bar<\/td>\n<td>The bar&#8217;s own site (the ranking is its claim, not ours)<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Smalls Jazz Club<\/td>\n<td>Streaming pioneer since 2007; archive of every show<\/td>\n<td>SmallsLIVE, the club&#8217;s own site<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Art Bar<\/td>\n<td>Over 35 years in the West Village<\/td>\n<td>The bar&#8217;s own site<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cubbyhole<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood bar since 1994<\/td>\n<td>The bar&#8217;s own site<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The Duplex<\/td>\n<td>Long-running piano bar and cabaret (no founding year published)<\/td>\n<td>The bar&#8217;s own site<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Employees Only<\/td>\n<td>Opened 2004<\/td>\n<td>The bar&#8217;s own site<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tbg-hl\">\n<td>The Beer Garage, West Village<\/td>\n<td>Second room of a converted Park Slope garage<\/td>\n<td>beergarageny.com<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"do\">Things you can only do at these bars<\/h2>\n<p>The third part of the score asks what you can do at each of the unique bars in the West Village that you cannot do at the other eight, and the answers are specific: sing a full show tune with a room and no microphone at Marie&#8217;s Crisis, sit through a 1:00 AM jam session at Smalls, get your fortune read on the way into Employees Only, or drink a New York craft beer under heaters in a hedge-walled garden at The Beer Garage.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the unique bars in the West Village come with rules worth knowing before you go. Marie&#8217;s Crisis is cash only, takes no reservations, sells no tickets and asks for two drinks per person, all per its own FAQ. Smalls publishes set times of 6:00 PM, 7:30 PM, 9:00 PM and 10:30 PM with jams running late; if you want a seat, go to the early set.<\/p>\n<p>The Stonewall Inn runs karaoke on Fridays at 6:00 PM and its drag show on Sundays with doors at 9:30 PM. The Duplex holds open-mic stand-up on Tuesdays from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. At The Beer Garage the garden is first come first served, and the game on the screens is whatever is on that night; there is no team affiliation and no reserved section.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tbg-fig\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_2356-w1600.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_2356-w800.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_2356-w1600.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 773px\" alt=\"The heated backyard garden at The Beer Garage, one of the unique bars in the West Village: green hedge walls hung with license plates, a car grille mounted on the wall, a Corona sign, wooden tables with metal stools and heater poles\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption>The garden behind the bar at 118 Christopher Street, with a car grille on the wall and heaters over the tables. Photo: The Beer Garage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"beer-garage\">Where The Beer Garage fits, honestly<\/h2>\n<p>Among the unique bars in the West Village, The Beer Garage at 118 Christopher Street is the one for a pint of rotating New York craft beer with a game on, in a room dressed like a garage, with a heated backyard garden behind it; it scores 6 of 10, tied sixth, because its history is short and its distinctness is decor and the garden rather than something you can do nowhere else.<\/p>\n<p>What the room is, and why it belongs with the other unique bars in the West Village: exposed brick hung with New York license plates, a guitar on the wall, a corrugated-metal bar front with blue stools, chalkboard draft and bottle lists, a dartboard and televisions. Through the back, the garden: hedge walls, more plates, a car grille mounted on the wall, string lights and heaters, which has its own page, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/backyard-garden-bar-in-the-west-village\/\">backyard garden guide<\/a>, so we will not repeat it here.<\/p>\n<p>The West Village kitchen sends out double-fried wings, hand-breaded pickles and a half-pound Angus burger; prices are below and dated. The Google listing for the bar, read September 15, 2026, shows 4.5 stars on 161 reviews, attributes Outdoor seating, Bar games and Happy hour drinks, and identifies the business as women-owned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tbg-scroll\">\n<table>\n<caption>Prices as of September 2026, from the posted West Village menu (July 2026 upload), reread September 15, 2026. West Village menu only; the Park Slope, Brooklyn menu is different and is 100 per cent gluten-free there.<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>West Village item<\/th>\n<th>Price<\/th>\n<th>What it is<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Our Famous Garage Wings<\/td>\n<td>$14<\/td>\n<td>One pound, double-fried; seven sauces from mild to mango habanero<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Crunch Pickles<\/td>\n<td>$14<\/td>\n<td>Hand-breaded, double-fried, spicy aioli<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Garage Stack Nachos<\/td>\n<td>$17<\/td>\n<td>Chicken or seasoned beef<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The Garage Angus Burger<\/td>\n<td>$18<\/td>\n<td>Half-pound, aged cheddar, bacon, onion rings, brioche, fries, coleslaw<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Village Philly<\/td>\n<td>$20<\/td>\n<td>Half-pound shaved ribeye, beer cheese, hero roll<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The Fire Wrench<\/td>\n<td>$14<\/td>\n<td>Two eggs, bacon, cheddar, jalapenos, brioche; all day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Possible downside at The Beer Garage in the West Village:<\/strong> it is small, the garden is first come first served, and the opening hours published by Google and by the website disagree (noon versus 3:00 PM on weekdays), so call 646-490-4301 before a midday visit. There is no live music and no stage; if that is the night you want, Smalls and The Duplex are one minute from the train.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tbg-warn\">\n<p><strong>21+ with valid ID. Please drink responsibly.<\/strong> Happy hour windows and prices at every bar on this page are set by that bar and change; nothing here is an offer. Marie&#8217;s Crisis requires a valid ID for 21 and over per its own FAQ. The Beer Garage&#8217;s West Village kitchen is standard; its gluten-free kitchen is in Park Slope, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"hours\">Hours, walks and the 1 train<\/h2>\n<p>Seven of the nine unique bars in the West Village are within four minutes of the Christopher Street-Stonewall station on the 1 train, and four of them, The Stonewall Inn, The Duplex, Marie&#8217;s Crisis Cafe and Smalls, are within one minute, so the station is the right meeting point for a night that moves between them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tbg-scroll\">\n<table>\n<caption>Opening hours as published on each venue&#8217;s own website, read September 15, 2026, all times ET. The Beer Garage hours are from its Google listing the same day; the site footer lists shorter hours and the two will be reconciled. Where a site does not publish hours, the cell says so.<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Bar<\/th>\n<th>Hours as published<\/th>\n<th>Source<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Marie&#8217;s Crisis Cafe<\/td>\n<td>Bar from 4:00 PM and music from 5:30 PM on its homepage; its FAQ has pianists from 6:00 PM until last call at 3:00 AM, 3:30 AM Friday and Saturday (read September 29, 2026)<\/td>\n<td>Own site homepage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Smalls Jazz Club<\/td>\n<td>Sets at 6:00 PM, 7:30 PM, 9:00 PM and 10:30 PM; jam sessions to 4:00 AM<\/td>\n<td>Own site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The Stonewall Inn<\/td>\n<td>Monday to Friday 2:00 PM to 4:00 AM; Saturday and Sunday 1:00 PM to 4:00 AM<\/td>\n<td>Own site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The Duplex<\/td>\n<td>Daily 4:00 PM to 4:00 AM<\/td>\n<td>Own site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>White Horse Tavern<\/td>\n<td>Monday to Wednesday 12:00 PM to 12:00 AM; Thursday 12:00 PM to 2:30 AM; Friday and Saturday 12:00 PM to 3:30 AM; Sunday 11:00 AM to 12:00 AM (read September 28, 2026)<\/td>\n<td>Own site contact page<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Employees Only<\/td>\n<td>Bar 6:00 PM to 4:00 AM daily on its reservations page, read September 25, 2026; dinner reservations 6:00 to 11:00 PM<\/td>\n<td>Own site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Art Bar<\/td>\n<td>Daily 4:00 PM to 4:00 AM<\/td>\n<td>Own site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cubbyhole<\/td>\n<td>Monday to Thursday 4:00 PM to 2:00 AM; Friday 4:00 PM to 4:00 AM; Saturday 2:00 PM to 4:00 AM; Sunday 2:00 PM to 2:00 AM<\/td>\n<td>Own site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tbg-hl\">\n<td>The Beer Garage, West Village<\/td>\n<td>Monday to Thursday 12:00 PM to 12:00 AM; Friday 12:00 PM to 1:00 AM; Saturday 11:00 AM to 2:00 AM; Sunday 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM<\/td>\n<td>Google listing, September 15, 2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Getting to the station itself is the easy part of a night among the unique bars in the West Village: Christopher Street-Stonewall is on the 1, the Christopher Street PATH station from New Jersey is a two-minute walk from The Beer Garage, and the West 4th Street hub carries the A, C, E, B, D, F and M seven minutes away.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tbg-scroll\">\n<table>\n<caption>Transit to the Christopher Street cluster. Walks measured in Google Maps walking mode on September 15, 2026, to 118 Christopher Street. Lines per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MTA<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panynj.gov\/path\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Port Authority (PATH)<\/a>; check for service changes before you go.<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Station<\/th>\n<th>Lines<\/th>\n<th>Walk to 118 Christopher Street<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Christopher Street PATH<\/td>\n<td>PATH from Hoboken, Jersey City and Newark<\/td>\n<td>2 minutes, 0.1 mile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Christopher Street-Stonewall<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>3 minutes, 0.1 mile, west along Christopher Street<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>West 4th Street-Washington Square<\/td>\n<td>A, C, E, B, D, F, M<\/td>\n<td>7 minutes, 0.3 mile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14th Street \/ 8th Avenue<\/td>\n<td>A, C, E, L<\/td>\n<td>13 minutes, 0.6 mile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"finder\">Which unique bar tonight?<\/h2>\n<p>Two questions route you to the right one of the unique bars in the West Village for the night you actually want, and the answer is not always us.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tbg-bar-finder\" class=\"tbg-quiz\">\n<div class=\"tbg-dots\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"on\"><\/span><span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tbg-step\">\n<p><strong>1 of 2: What do you want to do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"tbg-options\">\n      <button type=\"button\" data-action=\"mood\" data-v=\"sing\">Sing<\/button><br \/>\n      <button type=\"button\" data-action=\"mood\" data-v=\"jazz\">Hear live music<\/button><br \/>\n      <button type=\"button\" data-action=\"mood\" data-v=\"history\">Stand somewhere historic<\/button><br \/>\n      <button type=\"button\" data-action=\"mood\" data-v=\"beer\">A beer and the game<\/button><br \/>\n      <button type=\"button\" data-action=\"mood\" data-v=\"outside\">Drink outside<\/button>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"tbg-step\" hidden>\n<p><strong>2 of 2: When?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"tbg-options\">\n      <button type=\"button\" data-action=\"when\" data-v=\"early\">Afternoon or early evening<\/button><br \/>\n      <button type=\"button\" data-action=\"when\" data-v=\"late\">After midnight<\/button>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"tbg-result\" data-result=\"sing-early\" hidden>The Duplex, 61 Christopher Street, opens at 4:00 PM with singing bartenders downstairs. Marie&#8217;s Crisis opens its bar at 4:00 PM too, but its music starts at 5:30 PM. Both are one minute from the 1 train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tbg-result\" data-result=\"sing-late\" hidden>Marie&#8217;s Crisis Cafe, 59 Grove Street, plays show tunes from 5:30 PM, or 6:00 PM by its FAQ, until last call at 3:00 AM, 3:30 AM on Friday and Saturday. Cash only, no cover, no microphones. One minute from the 1 train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tbg-result\" data-result=\"jazz-early\" hidden>Smalls Jazz Club, 183 West 10th Street, basement: the 6:00 PM or 7:30 PM set is the one with seats. One minute from the 1 train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tbg-result\" data-result=\"jazz-late\" hidden>Smalls Jazz Club again: the jam sessions run to 4:00 AM. Cubbyhole and Art Bar are the late jukebox alternatives, 7 and 8 minutes away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tbg-result\" data-result=\"history-early\" hidden>The Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher Street, opens at 2:00 PM on weekdays and 1:00 PM on weekends, and it is the only individually landmarked bar on this list. White Horse Tavern, since 1880, is seven minutes away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tbg-result\" data-result=\"history-late\" hidden>The Stonewall Inn runs to 4:00 AM every night. Marie&#8217;s Crisis, in an 1839 building on the site where Thomas Paine died, runs late too: its FAQ puts last call at 3:00 AM, 3:30 AM on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tbg-result\" data-result=\"beer-early\" hidden>The Beer Garage, 118 Christopher Street: rotating New York craft beer, the game on, darts, noon opening per its Google listing. Three minutes from the 1 train. Standard kitchen; the gluten-free one is in Park Slope, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tbg-result\" data-result=\"beer-late\" hidden>The Beer Garage closes at midnight Monday to Thursday, 1:00 AM Friday and 2:00 AM Saturday per its Google listing. After that, Art Bar and The Spaniard run to 4:00 AM on the late nights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tbg-result\" data-result=\"outside-early\" hidden>The Beer Garage&#8217;s heated backyard garden at 118 Christopher Street, entered through the bar, first come first served. Three minutes from the 1 train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tbg-result\" data-result=\"outside-late\" hidden>The Beer Garage garden until closing (midnight to 2:00 AM depending on the night, per its Google listing). None of the other eight publishes a backyard.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>  <button type=\"button\" class=\"tbg-reset\" data-action=\"reset\" hidden>Start again<\/button><br \/>\n  <noscript><\/p>\n<p>Use the tables above: singing means Marie&#8217;s Crisis or The Duplex; live music means Smalls; history means The Stonewall Inn; a beer with the game or a heated garden means The Beer Garage.<\/p>\n<p><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tbg-key\">\n<p><strong>How we know this.<\/strong> Every claim about another bar comes from that bar&#8217;s own website, read September 15, 2026; no venue was visited, no rating of ours is implied, and where a site does not publish hours the table says so. The Stonewall Inn&#8217;s landmark status and the Greenwich Village Historic District date come from the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission&#8217;s June 23, 2015 press release.<\/p>\n<p>All nine walks were measured once, the same day, in Google Maps walking mode from the Christopher Street-Stonewall station. The score is three parts: distinct feature stated on the venue&#8217;s own site (0 to 4), historic designation by a public body or a documented date on the site (0 to 3), and an activity you can only do there (0 to 3). It measures what is published, not how good a night you will have.<\/p>\n<p>Six West Village prices were reread from the posted menu PDF. The Beer Garage&#8217;s Google attributes and rating were read the same day; the rating appears with its date and is not in this page&#8217;s structured data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tbg-cta\">\n<h2 style=\"margin-top:0\">The Beer Garage, West Village<\/h2>\n<p>118 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014. Three minutes from the 1 train at Christopher Street-Stonewall, two from the Christopher Street PATH. Hours per the Google listing, September 15, 2026: Monday to Thursday 12:00 PM to 12:00 AM ET, Friday 12:00 PM to 1:00 AM ET, Saturday 11:00 AM to 2:00 AM ET, Sunday 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET. Call before a midday visit while the website footer still shows a 3:00 PM opening.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tbg-btns\">\n    <a class=\"tbg-btn tbg-red\" href=\"tel:+16464904301\">Call 646-490-4301<\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"tbg-btn tbg-steel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grubhub.com\/restaurant\/the-beer-garage-118-christopher-st-new-york\/2930732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Order pickup on Grubhub<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/?api=1&amp;destination=118+Christopher+St+New+York+NY+10014&amp;travelmode=walking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walking directions to 118 Christopher Street<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"mailto:BeerGarageBK@gmail.com\">Private events and parties: BeerGarageBK@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Possible downside: no stage, no singing, a small room; if you came for the other kind of unique, four of the bars above are one minute from the train.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"faq\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n<h3>What are the most iconic West Village bars?<\/h3>\n<p>By public record rather than opinion, the two are The Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, which the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designated an individual landmark on June 23, 2015, and the White Horse Tavern at 567 Hudson Street, which has poured since 1880 and calls itself the city&#8217;s second-oldest bar. Marie&#8217;s Crisis Cafe on Grove Street, in an 1839 building on the site where Thomas Paine died, is the third most people name.<\/p>\n<h3>What are some hidden bars in the West Village?<\/h3>\n<p>Three of the unique bars in the West Village are hidden by design. Employees Only at 510 Hudson Street is entered through a fortune teller&#8217;s storefront. Smalls Jazz Club at 183 West 10th Street is a basement, with the door at the bottom of a stair. The Beer Garage at 118 Christopher Street hides a heated backyard garden behind the bar; you walk through the room to reach it, and there is no sign of it from the street.<\/p>\n<h3>What are the best day drinking bars in West Village, Manhattan?<\/h3>\n<p>Go by published opening times. The Spaniard at 190 West 4th Street opens at 11:00 AM on weekends and noon on weekdays per its own site, The Stonewall Inn opens at 1:00 PM on weekends and 2:00 PM on weekdays, and The Beer Garage at 118 Christopher Street lists a noon opening on its Google listing as of September 15, 2026. Most other unique bars in the West Village open at 4:00 PM or 6:00 PM.<\/p>\n<h3>What is the coolest bar in NYC?<\/h3>\n<p>There is no measurable answer, so this page does not name one. Instead it scores nine unique bars in the West Village on three things each venue publishes about itself: a feature no other bar on the list has, a public historic designation, and something you can only do there. On that rubric Marie&#8217;s Crisis Cafe scores 10 of 10 and Smalls Jazz Club 9; The Beer Garage scores 6.<\/p>\n<h3>Which unique bars in the West Village are closest to the 1 train at Christopher Street?<\/h3>\n<p>Four are within one minute of the Christopher Street-Stonewall station on the 1 train, measured in Google Maps on September 15, 2026: The Stonewall Inn (53 Christopher Street), The Duplex (61 Christopher Street), Marie&#8217;s Crisis Cafe (59 Grove Street) and Smalls Jazz Club (183 West 10th Street). The Beer Garage at 118 Christopher Street is three minutes west along Christopher Street, and Employees Only at 510 Hudson Street is four.<\/p>\n<h3>Does The Beer Garage in the West Village serve gluten-free food?<\/h3>\n<p>Not as a dedicated gluten-free kitchen. The Beer Garage&#8217;s West Village kitchen at 118 Christopher Street is a standard kitchen, and nothing on its menu is labeled gluten-free. The 100 per cent gluten-free kitchen is the Park Slope, Brooklyn location at 148 5th Avenue, which is covered in its own guide on this site. If gluten-free food decides your night, go to Park Slope, Brooklyn, not to Christopher Street.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"verdict\">Final verdict<\/h2>\n<p>If you want the single most one-of-a-kind night among the unique bars in the West Village, it is Marie&#8217;s Crisis Cafe: a show-tunes sing-along with no microphones in an 1839 building, cash only, music from 5:30 PM. For live music every night it is Smalls, one minute from the same station; for history a public body has certified, it is The Stonewall Inn. The Beer Garage at 118 Christopher Street is the pick when the night is a pint of New York craft beer, the game on, and a heated garden out back, and it is three minutes from all of them, which is the real case for the block.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"sources\">Sources and references<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/lpc\/downloads\/pdf\/stonewall_inn62315.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release on the designation of The Stonewall Inn<\/a>, June 23, 2015, including the April 29, 1969 Greenwich Village Historic District date; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/lpc\/index.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LPC home<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Venue websites, each read September 15, 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mariescrisiscafe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Marie&#8217;s Crisis Cafe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smallslive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Smalls Jazz Club (SmallsLIVE)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestonewallinnnyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">The Stonewall Inn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theduplex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">The Duplex<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehorsetavern1880.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">White Horse Tavern<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.employeesonlynyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Employees Only<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Art Bar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubbyholebar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Cubbyhole<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespaniardnyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">The Spaniard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dante-nyc.com\/location\/dante-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Dante West Village<\/a>. Hours for Marie&#8217;s Crisis Cafe and White Horse Tavern were reread on September 28, 2026 and corrected; Art Bar, The Stonewall Inn, Cubbyhole, The Duplex, The Spaniard and Smalls were reread the same day and had not changed.<\/li>\n<li>The Beer Garage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/\">beergarageny.com<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WV-The-Beer-Garage-Menu_v3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Village menu PDF<\/a>, July 2026 upload, reread September 15, 2026; the bar&#8217;s public Google listing, read the same day, for attributes, rating and hours.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MTA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panynj.gov\/path\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PATH)<\/a>: station and line references.<\/li>\n<li>Google Maps walking mode, from the Christopher Street-Stonewall station to each bar, measured September 15, 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"tbg-card\">\n  <img class=\"tbg-avatar tbg-avatar-lg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/marina-charny-owner-the-beer-garage.webp\" alt=\"Marina Charny, owner of The Beer Garage\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"object-fit:cover;padding:0\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Marina Charny<\/strong>, Owner, The Beer Garage<\/p>\n<p>Marina Charny owns The Beer Garage. For this page, the nine venue websites and the Landmarks Preservation Commission release were read on September 15, 2026, every walk from the Christopher Street-Stonewall station was measured in Google Maps the same day, and The Beer Garage was scored on the same rubric as the other eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tbg-meta\">Published September 15, 2026 &middot; Updated September 28, 2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>More from The Beer Garage:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/backyard-garden-bar-in-the-west-village\/\">The hidden backyard garden bar in the West Village<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/gluten-free-sports-bar-in-nyc\/\">Gluten-free sports bar in NYC, Brooklyn versus Manhattan<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/sports-bar-in-park-slope\/\">The Park Slope location guide<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beergarageny.com\/cocktail-bar-in-the-west-village\/\">Cocktail bar in the West Village<\/a> \u00b7 <a 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