What a drink actually costs in Manhattan.

How much is a beer in Manhattan?

The median beer is $9 at regular menu price, from 14,547 beer prices across 1,529 Manhattan bars. Half of all beers fall between $8 and $10. At happy hour the median drops to $6.

How much is a cocktail in Manhattan?

The median cocktail is $17.50, from 17,926 cocktail prices across 1,548 bars. Half fall between $15 and $19. At happy hour the median is $10.

How much is a glass of wine in Manhattan?

The median glass of wine is $16, from 15,969 by-the-glass prices across 1,528 bars. Bottles are excluded. At happy hour the median glass is $10.

How much is a whiskey or a spirit pour in Manhattan?

The median spirit pour is $17, from 15,428 priced pours across 647 bars. Half fall between $15 and $22. Bottles are excluded, and the families barely separate: gin sits around $16, whiskey and bourbon around $17, agave around $18. At happy hour the median pour is $8.

How much does happy hour actually save you?

Measured only at bars that publish both a regular and a happy hour price for the same drink, the median saving is $6 on a cocktail (421 bars), $5.50 on a glass of wine (410 bars) and $3 on a beer (373 bars).

Savings are paired within each bar. Comparing every happy hour price against every regular price would measure cheap bars against expensive ones instead.

Which Manhattan neighborhood has the cheapest drinks?

Barely any of them, which is the surprise. Median beer runs $8 to $9 across all 13 neighborhoods we track, a $1 spread. Inside a single neighborhood the middle half of beers spans about $2. The bar you walk into moves the price more than the neighborhood does.

Ordered by median beer. A neighborhood needs 20 bars before it gets a row, and each drink needs 30 prices before it gets a number.

How does Stoop know these prices?

They come from bars' own posted menus, websites and social pages, extracted per drink and checked against Google data. This snapshot covers 79,648 current prices at 1,956 Manhattan bars. It is Manhattan only.

Prices move. This is a dated snapshot rather than a live figure, so the numbers here stay still and can be quoted. For tonight's actual window and price at a specific bar, the happy hour pages update through the day.

How we measured

• The sample. 79,648 prices from 1,956 Manhattan bars. Each price is one row read off the bar's own posted menu, website or social page and checked against Google data, not a survey, an estimate or a user submission.
• One serving, never a bottle. Wine and spirits are sold both by the serving and by the bottle, and mixing the two describes neither, so bottles are excluded from both. 187ml wine singles are kept, because they are a serving. A beer bottle is a normal serving and stays. Pitchers, buckets, carafes, magnums, towers and bottle service are excluded everywhere.
• A $3 to $100 band. Below $3 is data entry noise, and above $100 is bottle service and collectible pours, which no longer describe a drink.
• Happy hour prices use both signals. A bar records a happy hour price either as a row in its happy hour menu or as a happy hour price on a regular row. Where both exist they agree closely, so the two are pooled.
• Savings are paired inside one bar. The saving column only counts bars that publish both a regular and a happy hour price for the same drink. Comparing every happy hour price against every regular price would measure cheap bars against expensive ones.
• Thresholds are published, not chosen per row. A neighborhood needs 20 bars before it gets a row, and a drink needs 30 prices in that neighborhood before it gets a number. Median is the 50th percentile; the cheapest and dearest quarters are the 25th and 75th.
• Manhattan only. The catalog behind this index holds Manhattan venues, so every figure on this page is Manhattan. Calling it a New York index would be a claim the data does not support.

Every figure above is free to quote, including commercially, with credit to Stoop and a link to stoop.bar/prices. Questions about the method, or a number that looks wrong, go to support@stoop.bar.