A guide to happy hours all around NYC

Let's have a little fun because it turns out that New York's happy hour scene has some serious neighborhood secrets. We could only think of one man to help us navigate this area. Sam Zuckin is the guy helping us find the good spots. He's the founder of 5PMNYC. It's a guide to happy hours all across the city. He's released a report breaking down what drinks really cost in more than 100 New York City neighborhoods. Sam, I apologize if I pronounced your last name incorrectly. You can correct me if you need to. um but welcome to Newsroom Live it is Zukan surprisingly Zukan okay um and so Sam you created this website uh and these reports which we do have some video of we could sort of show it as we're talking what is this uh no this is the restaurants this the other one is the other clip yeah what is this uh the site that you have and what can we find on it yeah so the site started off as kind of a passion project i thought it'd be fun to pull something together so i made 5pm NYC about eight months ago, and it's effectively just a happy hour guide. Bars and restaurants submit their happy hours. I put them on the site. And in the beginning, it was pretty small, but it got traction pretty quickly. And it's very easy to use. You just go on, go to 5pm.nyc, put in your location, put in where you're going, and it'll show you all the happy hours nearby, when they're running, what the deal is. And I started to accumulate all this data over time. I was getting all these submissions, and I was wondering, what can I do with the 100,000 prices that i now have and so i decided to pull together a report comparing prices deals across the city and so that's kind of what you've got on the screen now but it shows you um basically every type of drink price that i have any way you could cut it um so i think some of the interesting takeaways here for starters happy hour saves you a lot of money the average drink in the city is 16 and during happy hour you're getting 35 to 40 off at the average establishment on cocktails wine beer um another pretty interesting thing that came out of this was the the variance in neighborhoods i mean you see some spots that are seven or eight dollars higher than others and i'd say the last really interesting takeaway is that uh google stars and price don't correlate so like if a place is better rated it doesn't on average charge more for a drink so you know those people that say they have their local spot that's cheap and has good drinks they're telling you the truth because there's no relationship between between how high a place is rated and how much they charge for a cocktail and just sort of looking at some of the numbers i mean as you might imagine it looked like Manhattan and Brooklyn kind of have some of the highest average uh happy hour drinks um and uh Nomad has the highest median cocktail 19.50 um well where is Nomad first of all i don't know why i can't remember exactly where that is it's in it's in Manhattan okay in like central Manhattan Central Manhattan. And then what you said is very interesting because it's less about the boroughs and more about the actual neighborhoods. Where are the good neighborhoods if people are coming to town and you think they need to find something? Yeah, I think a good neighborhood is a relative thing, right? You're going to find the most expensive neighborhoods in Staten Island that are less expensive than the least expensive neighborhoods in South Manhattan. But I would say Astoria is a cool spot from a value perspective because I found that in Astoria they have really really high rated bars and restaurants that people seem to love and they're also quite inexpensive um so that was that was kind of a nice little combo finding from the piece but there are a lot of cool spots there's Breeze which you have on the screen which is a place I love in Greenpoint they have a great happy hour deal um Kitty Sullivan's in Astoria has you know five dollar well drinks nine dollar beers and a shot that's a good spot yeah there are a lot of good spots around the around the city if you're uh if you're finding them I really like the arts also art soho art midtown in manhattan though you know it's the pricing spectrum is a little bit um more severe so you're still going to be spending more than you would basically anywhere else in the country yeah but uh you can still get a good a good deal on a good drink if you find the right spot sam thank you so much thank you for creating this website if you're watching from out of town on the fox local app and you're looking to find a good drink that's Not a kind of the cliche thing. I highly suggest going to 5 p.m. NYC, a guide to happy hours all across the city. Sam Zukin, thank you very much.