{"id":378319,"date":"2026-10-20T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378319\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:14:09","slug":"nycs-cheapest-cocktails-are-in-this-queens-neighborhood-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378319\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC\u2019s Cheapest Cocktails Are in This Queens Neighborhood, Says Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

A second cocktail in New York<\/a> can feel like a major financial decision. But a new report suggests your bar tab could drop considerably if you simply switch neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

Bayside, Queens, has the city’s lowest median cocktail price at $12, according to the fall 2026 5PM Barometer report<\/a>. Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn and Throggs Neck in the Bronx follow at $12.50.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The report comes from happy hour guide 5PM NYC, which compiled more than 109,000 listed drink prices from 2,254 bar and restaurant menus across 108 neighborhoods, according to Gothamist<\/a>. (Its figures exclude tax and tip, so keep a little breathing room in that budget.)<\/p>\n

At the other end of the cocktail shaker sits NoMad, where the median\u00a0quaff costs $19.50\u2014that’s a whopping $7.50 more than in Bayside. And citywide, the median cocktail price is $16. Manhattan leads the boroughs at $17, followed by Brooklyn at $15 and the Bronx at $14.45. Queens and Staten Island tie at $14, though the report had significantly less pricing data available for Staten Island and the Bronx.<\/p>\n

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Beer drinkers, meanwhile, have an entirely different map to consult. Hamilton Heights in Manhattan and Woodhaven in Queens share the lowest median draft beer price at $6.50. Chelsea, Midtown and NoMad sit at the expensive end, each with a $10 median. Staten Island has the lowest boroughwide median for drafts at $7.50.<\/p>\n

One particularly welcome finding: higher Google ratings didn\u2019t reliably correspond to higher prices, according to 5PM NYC founder Sam Zukin. Your wallet, apparently, isn\u2019t a dependable judge of whether you\u2019ll like the place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have expected there to be some, but you’re seeing some neighborhoods that are charging basically twice as much as others across the city,\u201d Zukin told Gothamist.<\/p>\n

Naturally, a neighborhood median doesn\u2019t guarantee that every menu will cooperate. These figures describe prices in the dataset, not a $12 martini at whichever Bayside bar you wander into.<\/p>\n

Still, the next time the group chat proposes another round in NoMad, you have a perfectly reasonable counteroffer: Queens. Your friends might argue about the journey, but the cocktail math is considerably clearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second cocktail in New York can feel like a major financial decision. But a new report suggests…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2590,9,13928,56,63,65,64,821],"class_list":["post-378319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-categories-restaurants","tag-new-york","tag-news-drinking","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}