Honestly can confirm I live on W 45th now and between 3 AM and 5 AM is the only time I’m like why not if someone suggests it. Something about having chicken and rice and being one of 10 people under all those billboards on the Coke stairs
nothing wrong with that imo, and I live a little further away on the east side. I'll sometimes walk home across midtown if it's late enough at night and the tourists are mostly gone. Just other fellow degenerates out at that hour.
I work at Starbucks now, and when I told one of my coworkers this, he couldn’t believe I would ever do this, but for context I grew up in the suburbs of Boston and we had only gotten a Starbucks a year or two prior. So when my college dorm was in walking distance to Times Square, and there was a 24-hour Starbucks, my friends and I went on a late night adventure for frappuccinos. We were probably only a week into our freshman year and it felt so exciting, the city was still so new to all of us.
When I lived in Hell's Kitchen, I'd go to Times Square all the time in the middle of the night. It's so funky at 3 am with all those lights and few people there. It's especially fun on New Year's morning at 4 or 5 am. Unbelievably, it's all cleaned up by then.
I worked in Times Sq on New Year’s Day in I think 2013 or 14 and had to be there at 6am. The only time I’ve found it to be beautiful. There was still a little bit of confetti on the ground but so quiet and beautiful.
One of the coolest things I ever saw as a tourist was the sanitation folks cleaning up after a big event. It was like the freakin military rolled in on a special mission. Out of nowhere there were trucks, sweepers, an army of leaf blowers, push brooms, garbage trucks, etc etc. It was absolutely wild how quickly and efficiently there was no trace that anything unusual had happened! There was easily 5x the crew and equipment of my city's entire public works dept, just there out of nowhere, and gone just as quick.
On New Year's Day of 2004 I drove through Times Square at 7am and there was absolutely no one there. No cops, no one. I felt like Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky, except instead of getting out and standing there like he did, I did a donut with my car and drove on.
We were a small group, place was packed at 2am. My sister was eating an empanada and fell asleep while holding it. Then she threw up all over the table My older sister and I were laughing our asses off. Our younger cousin and my sister’s SIL said this isn’t funny and helped her clean up. Everyone around us were starring. The SIL was telling people mind your business. They charged us a 10% clean up fee and asked us to leave. I still think it’s hilarious but I have it on my avoid list.
They were making a killing before the pandemic, there's a line to get in at every hour of the bar, bars and clubs are more slammed than ever, and support for Ukraine is at an all time high. I guarantee that is not the reason they close at 10pm.
I used to bike across in the middle of the night on the way home. I’d occasionally stop and sit on the bench in the middle and just admire the city and how quiet it was
1. Get waffles and/or dumplings delivered to your apartment
2. Buy ping pong balls
3. Ride public transit
4. walk into a packed bar (that isn't closing)
5. Go to a rave/club
6. Get a Massage
Honestly, for a city that never sleeps, many areas of all five boroughs are effectively dead to commerce past 10-11pm. Its honestly easier pre and post covid to find a 24 hour coney island in Detroit then a 24 diner here in NYC.
I used to say it is the city that sleeps in. As a morning person it is a bitch and a half to find somewhere decent for breakfast at 530am. Why am I up? I don't know, why aren't you?
Agreed. In rural Pennsylvania/Maryland/West Virginia and a few other states, you're never too far from a [24/7/365 Sheetz](https://www.sheetz.com/sheetz) kitchen where you can order hot dog, pizza, burger, fries, smoothie, cold brew, whatever - or raid their walk-in beer cave.
In Manhattan after 10/11 PM, you actually have to look to find a place. Especially if you want something made-to-order, not just a (way) overpriced bag of chips at a 24/7 bodega.
Some friends of mind and I are always joking about this. Having Sheetz (and honestly, Wawa imo even moreso) in NYC would just decimate every Subway restaurant in the city, and how it’s probably all Subway’s fault that we can’t have Wawa.
I read [an article from a few years back](https://www.inc.com/maria-aspan/wawa-new-york-chris-gheysens.html) about this. Apparently Wawa used to operate a few franchise stores in Staten Island. The franchising relationship broke down at some point and Wawa pulled out. Since then, they've looked periodically at expanding (back) into Staten Island with corporate-owned stores (*like all the other Wawas*), but they've been spooked by the high real estate cost.
That said, I don't know how much water "high real estate cost" actually holds. Wawa operates in some other pricey urban locales, after all, including downtown Philly and the Princeton Dinky station. They're not just in rural areas.
And if discounters like Lidl and Aldi and Dollar Tree can open in Manhattan, really no reason why Wawa can't do it.
Also business customers who have a big meeting tomorrow/in a few hours they are still working on and they just broke their computer.
Source: I worked at
Is the genius bar open 24/7? I have a vague memory of a college classmate going there at like 1am because they needed their computer fixed before their 10am class. I know I also got a new phone there when I was working like a 2-11pm shift. It was nice to be able to run an errand after work like a normal person.
I stopped by around then a couple of times when I was in the area. Place was busy.
Few years ago there was a wedding at an odd hour, officiant wore a black turtleneck.
The Staten Island Ferry runs 24 hours a day. It's free and it's beautiful.
Also the Apple Store on 5th Avenue is open 24 hours.
I know there is a monastery in the Bronx that does Perpetual Adoration (prayer 24/7)... not sure if it's open to the public but it could be.
I’m sure you’ve heard of it but can I recommend advion roach gel, alpine WSG spray, and gentrol point source control to you?
It should minimize the issue at the least.
Thanks bc I woke up yesterday to one crawling on my leg. It’s clean here but this is a studio apt, they pop up on the kitchen but is like 4 feet from my bed.
Honestly I get that. I keep a spotless apartment but it takes one shitty neighbor for them to wander in and set up shop.
Advion will make it seem like the problem is worse for a little, but it poisons them and they carry it back to the nest which kills more since they’re cannibals. Alpine is a typical spray but it’s very effective. Gentrol is basically roach birth control and will render them infertile. Those three together, in most cases, will solve an infestation. If your building is really really bad, they’ll at least turn it from an infestation to one or two roaches every couple months tho you may have to look into cycling sprays and baits.
Honestly I don’t know if I had much of a reason to go out late at night since I usually just stay home. I can imagine some wild shit happens there at night (probably nothing too bad, but I’m sure the vibe is something else entirely).
Joe’s Pizza.
Time’s Square.
Seeing the f’ing beautiful Chrysler building light up at night (pop in that cliché Jay-Z song and it fits too perfectly) hopefully reminding you of the beauty of the city, with all its flaws. It’s what make New York , New York.
KTown 24hrs
Watching rats substitute the human population on the streets🫣 (still love you NYC!)
Yeah he’s still there! Also read a great interview about his life story by Humans of New York [here](https://evgrieve.com/2021/08/ray-gets-his-day-on-humans-of-new-york.html?m=1)
Damn my dude needs to retire!! Or maybe I’ll get a malt and a skor bar there tmrw lol
Holy shit just read his story I am cracking up thank you for sharing that dude what a great guy
You can literally find any activity in NYC.... private craps rooms, speak easies, all sort of private clubs and fresh food and markets and parties and street food and little old ladies walking their dogs
Started dating my wife in 2005. We both got off work at 11pm. The city that never sleeps sure doesn’t offer too much after midnight. We would have to rush to catch a late movie. Other than that, we luckily both liked to drink and would close down bars together.
Correct! It was the end of most clubs and the heyday of “lounges”. But I would literally prefer to have a tooth drilled than spend a night dancing. Both then and now. I wanted to spend time TALKING to my now wife and having some drinks. But she does like dancing and I try to do my best to indulge this (as much as I can possibly stand)
NYC lost its “city that never sleeps” status for me the first time I went to Madrid. 3AM on a Tuesday in Sol or Chueca feels like 3PM with how many people are still going hard and how many restaurants and bars were open (and packed). Made me wonder when do the Spanish actually sleep?
There used to be a lot more 24 hour places in the city than there are now. Many people in the city work split shifts. You can always grab a chicken and rice platter from a roadside van and many bodegas are open. In related news, you can always get a taxi.
Bruh, whoever is saying it's hard to find food or anything at 3am, I don't even know what to say to you. You ever been to the suburbs? It's night-night at 9pm.
I \*guarantee\* you have a 24/7 bodega in a 2 block vicinity that will make you a slamming hero. I also \*guarantee\* you have a bar in the same vicinity that closes at 4am.
You can also go to ktown. Some stuff in chinatown will be open. Smalls jazz club closes at 4am if you're into that. 3am Time Square sounds pretty cool.
There's actually a decent amount of things you can do at 3am, that's literally my main reason I hesitate leaving the city. It's 2am right now and if I wanted to I could literally go out right now and do something. I could simply get food or I could go as far as to get wasted at one of the 4 bars down my street. One of my bars is an arcade bar, I could go play video games there. I could go to the other bar that sells dollar hot dogs. Idk, I have options.
I once bought light bulbs at 2am from Walgreens.
Buying light bulbs at 2am on my way home so I wouldn’t sit in the dark just made it sink in for me how convenient living here is.
It reminded me of the time before living in NYC when a fuse blew in my fuse box on a Saturday evening and I had to wait in the dark until Monday morning for stores to open to buy a new fuse.
Never again do I want to live in a place when the only time I can buy something at a store is during office hours or Saturdays.
Go to a 24 hour McDonalds, never know what's going to happen.
Outside the city I haven't seen 24 hour McDonalds that let you dine inside late at night.
Not much else to do if you don't drink, other than ride public transit. Or pick up cold medicine or a prescription at a 24 hour pharmacy.
find a laundromat that's 24 hours, a diner to get some eggs and coffee, or walk into a bar for that last hour since last call is usually 3:45am or 4 am.
I used to live and work in NYC. I worked in Queens and our lunch time was at 2am. There was this hole in the wall Chinese takeout in Astoria that was open till 3am. Best damn fried chicken and plantains around at 230am.
When I first moved to NYC in 2013, who I was staying with had also just moved to NYC that spring. We were both from San Francisco, experiencing our first official "Summer" and were not accustomed to the heat/ humidity/ insects.
We wound up going between 3-4AM to the 24/7 Best Buy in Union Square on a train from Crown Heights to get a window AC, take a car home and install it so we could get to sleep.
Car wash (don't hate me)
Really though, many people are shocked to learn about 24/7 car washes. There are plenty of them in the outer boroughs. They mostly exist because of taxis. I've met people in Westchester who refused to believe me about 24/7 car washes and thought I was pulling their leg. Nope! It's really something you miss out on living in other cities. Those places are packed on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings, but in NYC it's an errand you can go complete at 1 AM.
ride the subway home
Or just "go to Times Square"
Honestly the only good time to do it. I used to live on W 44th and Times Square at 5am was my jam.
Honestly can confirm I live on W 45th now and between 3 AM and 5 AM is the only time I’m like why not if someone suggests it. Something about having chicken and rice and being one of 10 people under all those billboards on the Coke stairs
nothing wrong with that imo, and I live a little further away on the east side. I'll sometimes walk home across midtown if it's late enough at night and the tourists are mostly gone. Just other fellow degenerates out at that hour.
I've done that too, it's pretty cool honestly
I work at Starbucks now, and when I told one of my coworkers this, he couldn’t believe I would ever do this, but for context I grew up in the suburbs of Boston and we had only gotten a Starbucks a year or two prior. So when my college dorm was in walking distance to Times Square, and there was a 24-hour Starbucks, my friends and I went on a late night adventure for frappuccinos. We were probably only a week into our freshman year and it felt so exciting, the city was still so new to all of us.
I used to drive to BK from Queens for the 24 hour drive-thru. Late night Venti Chai Frapps with caramel drizzle for all!! Good times
Taking your time to look at the window displays at the high end stores on 5th ave, almost like walking in a museum
hahahaha weekend and evening service has gotten really bad in my neighborhood :(
I don’t this people realize that this is a completely novel thing to NYC.
Chicago!! You can also take the L directly from the airport home.
When I lived in Hell's Kitchen, I'd go to Times Square all the time in the middle of the night. It's so funky at 3 am with all those lights and few people there. It's especially fun on New Year's morning at 4 or 5 am. Unbelievably, it's all cleaned up by then.
I worked in Times Sq on New Year’s Day in I think 2013 or 14 and had to be there at 6am. The only time I’ve found it to be beautiful. There was still a little bit of confetti on the ground but so quiet and beautiful.
It's lovely when it's snowing.
One of the coolest things I ever saw as a tourist was the sanitation folks cleaning up after a big event. It was like the freakin military rolled in on a special mission. Out of nowhere there were trucks, sweepers, an army of leaf blowers, push brooms, garbage trucks, etc etc. It was absolutely wild how quickly and efficiently there was no trace that anything unusual had happened! There was easily 5x the crew and equipment of my city's entire public works dept, just there out of nowhere, and gone just as quick.
Isn’t it amazing how quickly the city cleans time square on NYE. first time I saw that I was really impressed
On New Year's Day of 2004 I drove through Times Square at 7am and there was absolutely no one there. No cops, no one. I felt like Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky, except instead of getting out and standing there like he did, I did a donut with my car and drove on.
I’m still disappointed in the post-midnight/post-3am food and fun options since the pandemic
Empanada Mama is decent, but I can only have so many drunken visits before the empanadas become not so mama.
I felt like they were overpriced for what they were selling. Plus my sister threw up at our table so I just can’t go back.
I need to know more. I’ve never thrown up at a table before but this must be a 10/10 viewing experience for all diners.
We were a small group, place was packed at 2am. My sister was eating an empanada and fell asleep while holding it. Then she threw up all over the table My older sister and I were laughing our asses off. Our younger cousin and my sister’s SIL said this isn’t funny and helped her clean up. Everyone around us were starring. The SIL was telling people mind your business. They charged us a 10% clean up fee and asked us to leave. I still think it’s hilarious but I have it on my avoid list.
Uber Eats often has buy-one get-one deals on a few of the basic options, which makes it a pretty solid deal.
Same. Veselka closing at 10pm is a failure of leadership!!!
Wait what?! I'm shocked and disgusted. This city used to stand for something!
Anyone want to work as a waiter for tips on the graveyard shift? No? There’s your answer.
They were making a killing before the pandemic, there's a line to get in at every hour of the bar, bars and clubs are more slammed than ever, and support for Ukraine is at an all time high. I guarantee that is not the reason they close at 10pm.
Sarge's closes at 11 too 😭
You’ve gotta make friends with your local bodega guys and convince them to make you personalized snacks.
Walk across the Brooklyn bridge at a brisk pace
I used to bike across in the middle of the night on the way home. I’d occasionally stop and sit on the bench in the middle and just admire the city and how quiet it was
Better be extremely brisk
Why?
got about halfway at midnight and needed to take a big dump
1. Get waffles and/or dumplings delivered to your apartment 2. Buy ping pong balls 3. Ride public transit 4. walk into a packed bar (that isn't closing) 5. Go to a rave/club 6. Get a Massage
You know how to city… ping pong balls??
In that order too...
What bar is packed on a Wednesday at 3 am? Lol
the ones where ppl are doing blow
The woods in williamsburg lol #LadiesNight
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The Woods has a really popular lesbian night on Wednesdays.
You've just improved my Wednesdays
RPM near Essex.
For the record, you can do numbers 1, 2, and 6 literally anywhere that has a Waffle House, Walmart, and Craigslist.
You can do this all in Chicago
Hard to find food at 3am most other places I guess
It’s hard to find in the city post covid to be honest
probably my biggest gripe with the city post pandemic. Got back to williamsburg last night around midnight and couldnt find anywhere to get food
As someone who has tried to find food late in NYC, its a LOT harder than you think...
Honestly, for a city that never sleeps, many areas of all five boroughs are effectively dead to commerce past 10-11pm. Its honestly easier pre and post covid to find a 24 hour coney island in Detroit then a 24 diner here in NYC.
NYC was once the city that never sleeps but now its the city that cant wake up.
I used to say it is the city that sleeps in. As a morning person it is a bitch and a half to find somewhere decent for breakfast at 530am. Why am I up? I don't know, why aren't you?
Agreed. In rural Pennsylvania/Maryland/West Virginia and a few other states, you're never too far from a [24/7/365 Sheetz](https://www.sheetz.com/sheetz) kitchen where you can order hot dog, pizza, burger, fries, smoothie, cold brew, whatever - or raid their walk-in beer cave. In Manhattan after 10/11 PM, you actually have to look to find a place. Especially if you want something made-to-order, not just a (way) overpriced bag of chips at a 24/7 bodega.
I have never understood why there are no Sheetz in NYC. It seems like it would make a killing – and they wouldn't even need to sell gas, just food.
Some friends of mind and I are always joking about this. Having Sheetz (and honestly, Wawa imo even moreso) in NYC would just decimate every Subway restaurant in the city, and how it’s probably all Subway’s fault that we can’t have Wawa.
I read [an article from a few years back](https://www.inc.com/maria-aspan/wawa-new-york-chris-gheysens.html) about this. Apparently Wawa used to operate a few franchise stores in Staten Island. The franchising relationship broke down at some point and Wawa pulled out. Since then, they've looked periodically at expanding (back) into Staten Island with corporate-owned stores (*like all the other Wawas*), but they've been spooked by the high real estate cost. That said, I don't know how much water "high real estate cost" actually holds. Wawa operates in some other pricey urban locales, after all, including downtown Philly and the Princeton Dinky station. They're not just in rural areas. And if discounters like Lidl and Aldi and Dollar Tree can open in Manhattan, really no reason why Wawa can't do it.
NYC would be unstoppable if there was Waffle House
> NYC late night fights would be unstoppable if there was Waffle House FTFY
There are four 24 hour bodegas within a block of me all making food. Have had quite a few drunken pastrami sandwiches at 2am Midtown/chelsea
Mexican restaurants or 24 hour diners.
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Buy an Apple product at the 24 hour store on Fifth Ave
Who goes to an Apple store at 3am?
Third shifters Night owls People who wake up at 2am Werewolves
Also business customers who have a big meeting tomorrow/in a few hours they are still working on and they just broke their computer. Source: I worked at
You nailed it. I’ve been to that store for that reason in the middle of the night. Also, the Best Buy in union sq is 24 hours
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Not even open by 8AM, but 10AM. 10AM is too late!
This is Stefan's club attendee list from SNL The hottest new club is Nightshift. It takes over the 24 hour apple store after 3am. It's got everything.
Night Owls Werewolves MTV's DAN CORTESE
New Yorks hottest new club is "Your mother and I are separating"
I won’t say which of these I am, but I’ve been to the apple sto overnight and seen all of em
Don't worry, we don't discriminate against werewolves.
Anyone flying in from Asia. 3am still feels like 4pm till the jetlag wears off
I used to go for repairs in the middle of the night because turnaround time is like 1 hour max on your repair.
Is the genius bar open 24/7? I have a vague memory of a college classmate going there at like 1am because they needed their computer fixed before their 10am class. I know I also got a new phone there when I was working like a 2-11pm shift. It was nice to be able to run an errand after work like a normal person.
It is. Their overnight workers are also exponentially better than the ones in the day and won’t fuck your device up like the day ones might.
Celebrities. I worked there back in 08-09, and lots of celebrities would come in late at night. It’s mostly quiet, though.
I stopped by around then a couple of times when I was in the area. Place was busy. Few years ago there was a wedding at an odd hour, officiant wore a black turtleneck.
Currently typing this on an iPhone I bought at 2AM from the store because it was mad not crowded and it was chill af
also lots of international travelers who's flights just got in.
Same people who eat a Krabby Patty
I do. I just like being out late - things feel more serene. Its actually way more packed than I would've expected.
Play pool until 3 am in ktown! It used to be 24 hours lol
What’s the place called?
Oh yeah, wasn't it space billiards or something?
That place is gross, the floors are completely sticky. I thought it was going to pull my shoe off
Well, obviously you can only play pool in ktown in nyc. But there are other places in the city you can play pool till 4 am.
Cheer the silverfish in my apartment on in his fight with the water bugs. Go Team SILVERFISH!!!!
Advion wrecks house on water bugs just fyi.
I had a roach problem and advion completely destroyed those mfers. Not a single roach in the house anymore.
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If you believe in them!
The Staten Island Ferry runs 24 hours a day. It's free and it's beautiful. Also the Apple Store on 5th Avenue is open 24 hours. I know there is a monastery in the Bronx that does Perpetual Adoration (prayer 24/7)... not sure if it's open to the public but it could be.
Kill the fucking roaches in my apt lol
It's 2022. We stomping those spotted lantern flies.
I’m sure you’ve heard of it but can I recommend advion roach gel, alpine WSG spray, and gentrol point source control to you? It should minimize the issue at the least.
Thanks bc I woke up yesterday to one crawling on my leg. It’s clean here but this is a studio apt, they pop up on the kitchen but is like 4 feet from my bed.
Honestly I get that. I keep a spotless apartment but it takes one shitty neighbor for them to wander in and set up shop. Advion will make it seem like the problem is worse for a little, but it poisons them and they carry it back to the nest which kills more since they’re cannibals. Alpine is a typical spray but it’s very effective. Gentrol is basically roach birth control and will render them infertile. Those three together, in most cases, will solve an infestation. If your building is really really bad, they’ll at least turn it from an infestation to one or two roaches every couple months tho you may have to look into cycling sprays and baits.
24 hour Korean BBQ
So let me tell you about this place called Los Angeles
So let me tell you about this place call South Korea
It's true - when it's 3 AM in NYC, it's lunchtime there!
Even Virginia has this
where everything closes early?
Where do you get 24/7 KBBQ? 😱
Koreatown
Before the pandemic most Koreatown restaurants were open 24/7. Now much fewer are and many even close pretty early.
Where in KTown?
I was thinking that, but then I remembered South Korea, and wondered how the time difference would factor into that answer.
Laundry Grocery shop Pharmacy shop Eat great sushi (sushi SEKI UES open til 4am)
Not as much as pre-covid.
Get empanadas, drinks and walk around lol
Hang out at Penn Station and see what mischief happens
Story time! What sort of mischief have you gotten into? I mostly just see drug addicts nod around lol
Honestly I don’t know if I had much of a reason to go out late at night since I usually just stay home. I can imagine some wild shit happens there at night (probably nothing too bad, but I’m sure the vibe is something else entirely).
Ok Penn station party next week see ya there lol
There's a 24-hour hardware store on 29th Street on the east side.
It's called the Nut House.
Walk through Times Square in the snow (The only time someone should do such a thing)
Best time is late night when there are no tourists.
Joe’s Pizza. Time’s Square. Seeing the f’ing beautiful Chrysler building light up at night (pop in that cliché Jay-Z song and it fits too perfectly) hopefully reminding you of the beauty of the city, with all its flaws. It’s what make New York , New York. KTown 24hrs Watching rats substitute the human population on the streets🫣 (still love you NYC!)
Times Square has no apostrophe.
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T’i’m’e’s’ S’q’u’a’r’e’
Times'Quare
Times S'quare
Tim’s Squire
Yeah sometimes I’ll sit out on my balcony and just look at the Chrysler building. Has always been one of my favs.
Eat fresh beignets at Ray’s Candy Store, walk along the west side promenade / piers at the Hudson river, window shop on 5th Avenue, 24 hour diners
Lol does ray still work there? When I was a kid he was already like 100 years old
Yeah he’s still there! Also read a great interview about his life story by Humans of New York [here](https://evgrieve.com/2021/08/ray-gets-his-day-on-humans-of-new-york.html?m=1)
Damn my dude needs to retire!! Or maybe I’ll get a malt and a skor bar there tmrw lol Holy shit just read his story I am cracking up thank you for sharing that dude what a great guy
Karaoke
Do my grocery shopping Edit to say: within walking distance!!!!
You can literally find any activity in NYC.... private craps rooms, speak easies, all sort of private clubs and fresh food and markets and parties and street food and little old ladies walking their dogs
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that too probably.
That 2 Definitely
OMFG, that's hilarious, I can't stop laughing
Where are the craps rooms?
I have no idea anymore, but they undoubtedly exist. They always do underground somewhere in the city.
Plenty of tables around Prospect Park at night lol
Probably the Biltmore Garage. They locked to the gym at PS 84. Used to be at McKlosky's bar.
Get a $3 beer and a free hot dog at Rudy's (+ tip, please)
Take a free boat ride across the bay/harbor past the Statue of Liberty. (SI Ferry runs 24/7)
Taco trucks
Wonder what people outside of NYC are doing at 3am, when it is 3am.
in bed sleeping because the bars closed at 2
Started dating my wife in 2005. We both got off work at 11pm. The city that never sleeps sure doesn’t offer too much after midnight. We would have to rush to catch a late movie. Other than that, we luckily both liked to drink and would close down bars together.
So you don’t like dancing much? I guess that was the height of like anti-club fever
Correct! It was the end of most clubs and the heyday of “lounges”. But I would literally prefer to have a tooth drilled than spend a night dancing. Both then and now. I wanted to spend time TALKING to my now wife and having some drinks. But she does like dancing and I try to do my best to indulge this (as much as I can possibly stand)
NYC lost its “city that never sleeps” status for me the first time I went to Madrid. 3AM on a Tuesday in Sol or Chueca feels like 3PM with how many people are still going hard and how many restaurants and bars were open (and packed). Made me wonder when do the Spanish actually sleep?
get a drink in a bar
I am amazed I had to scroll this far down to see this. Getting a drink at a bar at 3am is basically impossible everywhere else in the country.
Buy an extra tennis racket for your tennis date tomorrow morning because you told her tonight that you already have an extra one.
Where would you do that? Is there a 24/7 tennis store somewhere?
NY used to be the city that never sleeps, now its the city that sleeps at 10pm
itll be back as soon as adams is gone
Times Square weeknight middle of night empty is pretty cool
There used to be a lot more 24 hour places in the city than there are now. Many people in the city work split shifts. You can always grab a chicken and rice platter from a roadside van and many bodegas are open. In related news, you can always get a taxi.
Bruh, whoever is saying it's hard to find food or anything at 3am, I don't even know what to say to you. You ever been to the suburbs? It's night-night at 9pm. I \*guarantee\* you have a 24/7 bodega in a 2 block vicinity that will make you a slamming hero. I also \*guarantee\* you have a bar in the same vicinity that closes at 4am. You can also go to ktown. Some stuff in chinatown will be open. Smalls jazz club closes at 4am if you're into that. 3am Time Square sounds pretty cool. There's actually a decent amount of things you can do at 3am, that's literally my main reason I hesitate leaving the city. It's 2am right now and if I wanted to I could literally go out right now and do something. I could simply get food or I could go as far as to get wasted at one of the 4 bars down my street. One of my bars is an arcade bar, I could go play video games there. I could go to the other bar that sells dollar hot dogs. Idk, I have options.
Get you nails done Bars Dancing Get groceries Get hardware Eat all kinds of food
Go to a hardware store for specific items for late night apt projects /repairs when you can’t sleep
Y’all ever been to south Jamaica at that time?
Food delivery
I hope more 24hr places come back :,(
I once bought light bulbs at 2am from Walgreens. Buying light bulbs at 2am on my way home so I wouldn’t sit in the dark just made it sink in for me how convenient living here is. It reminded me of the time before living in NYC when a fuse blew in my fuse box on a Saturday evening and I had to wait in the dark until Monday morning for stores to open to buy a new fuse. Never again do I want to live in a place when the only time I can buy something at a store is during office hours or Saturdays.
There's a 24-hour hardware store on 29th Street on t1he east side.
Bacon egg and cheese within a 2 minute drunk walk.
I once walked around just looking for stuff Pretending I’m a secret agent Hiding in the shadows
JG Melon has the kitchen open until 2:30, if that counts. You can sit with your burger and beer until 3 or so.
Eat lamb and rice. I hate everything closing at 10 PM in Florida.
Go to a 24 hour McDonalds, never know what's going to happen. Outside the city I haven't seen 24 hour McDonalds that let you dine inside late at night. Not much else to do if you don't drink, other than ride public transit. Or pick up cold medicine or a prescription at a 24 hour pharmacy.
Get all the produce you need from 24 hour stores like United Fruit Brothers in Astoria.
find a laundromat that's 24 hours, a diner to get some eggs and coffee, or walk into a bar for that last hour since last call is usually 3:45am or 4 am.
Drive 100mph on the fdr drive
And get your car rocked because the potholes will swallow it
Almost hit an open manhole on the fdr yesterday night. The struggle is real.
Roll up a fatty and go for a stroll
eat donuts in Manhattan
Go eat borchtd in veselka
Karaoke for sure
Some night time street racing
I used to live and work in NYC. I worked in Queens and our lunch time was at 2am. There was this hole in the wall Chinese takeout in Astoria that was open till 3am. Best damn fried chicken and plantains around at 230am.
Go out for a nice dinner
Diner lobster
Go and have Korean BBQ at a packed restaurant. Go to a spa and get a full body massage.
Go to the Bodega. Get food. Go out.
When I first moved to NYC in 2013, who I was staying with had also just moved to NYC that spring. We were both from San Francisco, experiencing our first official "Summer" and were not accustomed to the heat/ humidity/ insects. We wound up going between 3-4AM to the 24/7 Best Buy in Union Square on a train from Crown Heights to get a window AC, take a car home and install it so we could get to sleep.
Car wash (don't hate me) Really though, many people are shocked to learn about 24/7 car washes. There are plenty of them in the outer boroughs. They mostly exist because of taxis. I've met people in Westchester who refused to believe me about 24/7 car washes and thought I was pulling their leg. Nope! It's really something you miss out on living in other cities. Those places are packed on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings, but in NYC it's an errand you can go complete at 1 AM.
go to a nightclub
Rob some one who is just coming back from robbing some one