About YaY NYC

All the fun in NYC, in one place: a free community guide to happy hours, trivia nights and parties, with the facts you need before you go.

A guide for the people who go out here

YaY NYC is made for New Yorkers and the people visiting them, not for advertisers. There are no paid listings, no sponsored rankings and no ads: a bar or a party is here because its deal or its night checks out, and the order on a page is never for sale. Tips from readers are how we find the places we are missing, and every tip is checked against the place's own page before it goes up.

How we check a happy hour

We start from New York State's list of active liquor licences and from public maps, then read each bar's own website or menu. A happy hour is listed only when the bar itself publishes it. Every page shows the date we read it and links to the page we read it on.

When a bar publishes its times but not what is discounted, we say so instead of guessing. Prices are the bar's own, before sales tax (8.875%) and tip.

How we check a party

Parties come from ticket sellers, venue calendars and promoters. We re-read every upcoming party from its ticket page, mark the ones that sold out or moved, and take nights that are over off the site. When sources disagree (the lineup, the refund terms) we show both or say it is not confirmed.

Something wrong?

Share a tip and we'll check it. Anyone can send a fix, including the people who run the bar or the party.