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Karaoke in New York, NY

Ten karaoke venues stand on one block of West 32nd Street, most of them upstairs behind a lift. And that is only one district of three — Koreatown, the East Village, Queens — so picking yours settles almost everything about the night.

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The city's karaoke divides cleanly, and each part is its own kind of pleasure. Koreatown stacks private rooms on top of each other on a single block of West 32nd Street, and the night runs into the small hours as a matter of routine. The East Village and Lower East Side do bars with a stage and a queue. Queens, along Northern Boulevard and Broadway, is Koreatown's idea with more room, lower prices and even longer nights.

Pick the district first. Everything else — whether you book, what it costs, how late you are out — follows from that choice rather than from which venue you land on.

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Where New York sings

Map of the New York area with karaoke bars grouped by neighborhood Yonkers and nearby: 4 bars4Garfield and nearby: 8 bars8Palisades Park and nearby: 12 bars12Lyndhurst and nearby: 6 bars6Montclair and nearby: 5 bars5Queens and nearby: 10 bars10Koreatown and nearby: 57 bars57Flushing and nearby: 22 bars22Jersey City: 6 bars6Newark and nearby: 10 bars10Brooklyn and nearby: 23 bars23Borough Park and nearby: 13 bars13Palisades Park and nearby: 16 bars16Clifton and nearby: 19 bars19Queens and nearby: 10 bars10Koreatown and nearby: 68 bars68Flushing and nearby: 22 bars22Newark and nearby: 10 bars10Brooklyn and nearby: 20 bars20Borough Park and nearby: 11 bars11
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4 confirmed venues

Koreatown: ten karaoke venues on one block

One block of West 32nd Street has ten confirmed karaoke venues on it. Almost none of them are at street level — they are on the third, fourth, sixth, seventh, eleventh floors, behind a lift and a sign. If you have walked down it and seen nothing, that is why. These four are the ones worth knowing first.

  • Open every day, and on Friday and Saturday one of the last two rooms on the block to close — though Flushing goes later still.

    5 Bar Karaoke & Lounge runs karaoke every night.

  • The other last-to-close room on the block, across the street, open every day. Between these two, the block does not really close.

    Anytime Karaoke runs karaoke every night.

  • Karaoke City

    Koreatown

    Opens in the early afternoon, Monday to Saturday, and runs deep into the night — the answer for an afternoon that has gone unexpectedly sideways.

    Karaoke City runs karaoke Monday to Saturday.

  • Space Karaoke

    Koreatown

    Eleven floors up, open seven days and deep into the night. Worth it for the lift ride and the view of 32nd Street on the way down.

    Space Karaoke runs karaoke every night.

4 confirmed venues

If you want a stage and a queue

Downtown and midtown, karaoke mostly means an ordinary bar that hands you a microphone in front of everybody. No booking, no hourly rate, and the wait is the price you pay.

  • Arlene's Grocery

    Lower East Side

    Mondays only, and not really karaoke: it is rock-and-roll karaoke backed by a full house band. You are not singing over a track, you are fronting a band in front of a room. Not the place to try this for the first time.

    Arlene's Grocery runs karaoke Monday.

  • Iggy's

    Upper East Side

    Karaoke every single day, well into the night. The steadiest answer in the city — there is no night of the week where this is closed.

    Iggy's runs karaoke every night.

  • Winnie's Bar

    Chinatown

    Tuesday through Sunday, and it keeps going as long as Koreatown does. Chinatown rather than Koreatown, and a completely different room from anything on 32nd Street.

    Winnie's Bar runs karaoke Sunday and Tuesday to Saturday.

  • Six nights a week, Monday to Saturday, with an earlier start on Thursday and Friday. The rare midtown-ish open mic that starts early enough to be a whole evening.

    Sid Gold's Request Room runs karaoke Monday to Saturday.

The whole lineup is below.

Every confirmed bar in and around New York is listed further down, by neighborhood. The KaraokeList app keeps it current and shows who’s singing tonight, along with the fun part: what you’ll sing.

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St Marks Place, and the rest of the East Village

Sing Sing Karaoke and St. Marks Karaoke face each other across the same short street, both running rooms seven nights a week, deep into the night. One of the few places you can price-check karaoke by crossing the road.

The rest of the neighborhood fans out from there. Sing Sing Ave A opens in the afternoon later in the week and in the evening the rest of it, and keeps going just as long. On the Lower East Side, Baby Grand runs deepest into the night Thursday through Saturday, and Karaoke Boho Orchard opens in the afternoon at weekends. And on Tuesday nights only, Pianos runs a karaoke night that starts when most others are winding down.

Queens: the other Koreatown

Northern Boulevard in Flushing does the same thing 32nd Street does, and stays open even longer. 101 KTV is open from the afternoon deep into the night, every day of the week. Singing Karoke Club runs Sunday through Tuesday and Thursday through Saturday, going longest on Friday and Saturday.

Further west in Jackson Heights, Uptop New York opens early in the day on Saturday and Sunday and runs into the small hours. If the plan is a long day rather than a late night, Queens is where that is actually possible.

Nights that are their own thing

The Stonewall Inn in the West Village runs two: Fridays with no cover, and an early-evening Thursday downstairs in the Eight Ball Lounge alongside the pool tables.

Cornerstone Tavern runs five nights, and the Friday and Saturday sessions do not start until most karaoke nights are winding down — the rare karaoke night you can arrive at after something else has already ended. Over in Williamsburg, Chino Grande goes Wednesday through Saturday.

Neighborhoods and nearby towns

Every karaoke night we’ve confirmed in and around New York, sorted by where it is, so you can sing close to home (or close to the after-party). Tap a bar for its nights and times, or a neighborhood for its own page.

Flushing, Queens 15 bars

Flushing: nights, times and addresses →

Koreatown, Manhattan 13 bars

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Chinatown, Manhattan 5 bars

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Borough Park, Brooklyn 4 bars

Borough Park: nights, times and addresses →

Lower East Side, Manhattan 4 bars

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn 4 bars

Williamsburg: nights, times and addresses →

Bushwick, Brooklyn 3 bars

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East Village, Manhattan 3 bars

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West Village, Manhattan 3 bars

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Astoria, Queens 2 bars

Greenwich Village, Manhattan 2 bars

Midtown East, Manhattan 2 bars

Midtown West, Manhattan 2 bars

Sunset Park, Brooklyn 2 bars

Upper West Side, Manhattan 2 bars

Woodside, Manhattan 2 bars

Bay Ridge, Brooklyn 1 bar

Bayside, Queens 1 bar

Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn 1 bar

Chelsea, Manhattan 1 bar

Cobble Hill, Brooklyn 1 bar

College Point, Queens 1 bar

Elmhurst, Manhattan 1 bar

Gowanus, Brooklyn 1 bar

Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan 1 bar

Kensington, Brooklyn 1 bar

Kingsbridge, Bronx 1 bar

Long Island City, Queens 1 bar

NoMad, Manhattan 1 bar

Park Slope, Brooklyn 1 bar

South Beach, Staten Island 1 bar

South Ozone Park, Manhattan 1 bar

South Slope, Brooklyn 1 bar

St. George, Staten Island 1 bar

Tremont, Manhattan 1 bar

Upper East Side, Manhattan 1 bar

Brooklyn 12 bars

Manhattan 11 bars

  • Boxers ChelseaEvery night
  • Boxers HKWed
  • Club CummingTue
  • Common Good HarlemFri
  • Henrietta HudsonWed
  • Phoenix BarWed
  • Rise BarTue
  • The Boiler RoomMon
  • The HunterianThu
  • The Toolbox BarTue
  • Tubby Hook TavernThu

Queens 5 bars

  • Icon BarThu
  • Sissy McGinty'sFri
  • Spanglish NYCThu
  • The FootlightWed
  • The Rabbit HoleThu

One bar each

Nearby towns

Jersey City 6 bars

Palisades Park 6 bars

Hoboken 5 bars

  • 10th & WillowSun
  • 8th Street TavernSun
  • Green RockThu
  • Madd HatterWed
  • Mike's Wild Moose SaloonThu

Newark 5 bars

Clifton 3 bars

Garfield 3 bars

Lyndhurst 2 bars

  • Lee's Hawaiian IslanderFri, Sat
  • Mickey's Bar and GrillSat

Montclair 2 bars

Union 2 bars

Yonkers 2 bars

Belleville 1 bar

  • JK's BoathouseThu

Bellmore 1 bar

Cedar Grove 1 bar

  • The GrasshopperThu

Edgewater 1 bar

Elmwood Park 1 bar

Englewood Cliffs 1 bar

Fair Lawn 1 bar

Fairview 1 bar

Fort Lee 1 bar

Hackensack 1 bar

Harrison 1 bar

Highlands 1 bar

Keansburg 1 bar

  • Jackie Keelens Bar & GrillSun

Long Beach 1 bar

Merrick 1 bar

North Baldwin 1 bar

Orange 1 bar

Parsippany 1 bar

Paterson 1 bar

Port Chester 1 bar

  • McShane's Public HouseWed

River Edge 1 bar

Tappan 1 bar

Westfield 1 bar

Woodbridge 1 bar

One bar each

Questions

Where is the karaoke district in New York?

West 32nd Street in Koreatown. There are ten confirmed karaoke venues on that one block, nearly all of them on upper floors rather than at street level, and most run private rooms deep into the night. Queens has a second concentration along Northern Boulevard in Flushing, and the East Village has a cluster around St Marks Place.

How late does karaoke go in New York?

Later than almost anywhere. Koreatown, the East Village rooms and Flushing all keep going into the small hours as a matter of routine, and 5 Bar Karaoke and Anytime Karaoke, both on West 32nd Street, stay open longest of all on Friday and Saturday nights. The KaraokeList app has each venue's hours.

Can you do karaoke in New York without singing in front of strangers?

Yes, plenty. Private rooms rented by the hour are the whole of Koreatown, most of Flushing, and both St Marks Place venues. Sign-up-and-sing bars make up the rest of the list, from Manhattan and Brooklyn out to Jersey City.

Where can I do karaoke in New York tonight?

Iggy's on the Upper East Side runs karaoke every day of the week. In Koreatown, 5 Bar, Anytime Karaoke and Space Karaoke are all open seven days, and 101 KTV in Flushing opens its rooms every afternoon. A weeknight is no obstacle in this city — though nights change, so check before you go.

Do I need to book a karaoke room in New York?

For a Friday or Saturday in Koreatown, yes — ten venues on one block does not mean ten venues with space. Weeknights you can usually walk in. Open-mic bars never take bookings; you turn up and put your name down.

Is this every karaoke bar in New York?

Every bar we've confirmed is on this page, listed by neighborhood with the nights each one runs. The KaraokeList app keeps the list current and shows which bars are singing on the night you go.

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