Best bars New York City on Friday night (US)

Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge is most popular around 10 PM on Saturdays. Visitors usually stay 20 min to 1.5 hr here. It's most quiet on Tuesdays.

Experience New York City’s largest all-season indoor & outdoor rooftop bar featuring an “urban amusement park” theme with multiple bars, rotating seasonal pop-ups, and epic Empire State Building skyline views. Indulge in our menu of shareable bites and playful cocktails, while talented live DJs keep the energy high. Join us for happy hour, dinner, and weekend brunch.

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Birdland Jazz Club is most popular around 10 PM on Saturdays. Visitors usually stay up to 3 hours here. It's most quiet on Tuesdays.

Dubbed the "The Jazz Corner of the World", by its namesake, the late Charlie "Bird" Parker, Birdland is a modern nightclub in Midtown Manhattan in the tradition of classic New York elegance, and one of the town's most iconic venues. In recent years, Birdland has presented memorable sets by such music legends as Oscar Peterson, Pat Metheny and Diana Krall, as well as the big bands of Chico O'Farrill and Maria Schneider.

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Lost in Paradise Rooftop is most popular around 10 PM on Saturdays. Visitors usually stay 1-3 hours here. It's most quiet on Sundays.

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Visitors usually stay 1-2.5 hours here.

Barcade® is a combination bar and arcade with a focus on classic arcade games and American craft beer.

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Visitors usually stay up to 2,5 hours here.

"A quintessential jazz dive that puts emerging stars in the spotlight" --NY Magazine “The staircase curves left and opens into one of the best known jazz clubs in New York City and the world – it is ‘Smalls’” --- The Quint "Even if you know nothing about jazz, you'll appreciate the dimly lit, below-ground space, and you can catch everyone from young, local musicians to established jazz greats like Wynton Marsalis.

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Visitors usually stay 1-2 hours here.

The ornate wooden carvings and antiquities you’ll find at Lillie’s were procured from a ballroom in an 1800′s estate in Northern Ireland. The establishment combines an authentic ostentatious decor with a down-to-earth, mellow ambiance, that represents one of the last great Victorian “gin palaces” that once flourished in the industrial cities of Northern Ireland and England.

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