O’Hanlon’s Bar

5 stars for what is. local pub. ice cold beers and cheap. Steps from the subway… what more can you ask for. frosty beverages, friendly bartenders, friendly locals and cheap!

I love this place! Great dive bar experience, with wonderful bartenders! Nikolina, Valerie, and Mary are all amazing and great at what they do!
In NYC there are very few places where you can go and get a great value for your buck $$ and that’s what Ohanlons does. Not to mention that they do have live music from time to time with Deny and Brad bringing out their musical genius for all to enjoy. The drinks are stiff, the people are REAL and the bartenders are wonderful!!! What more could you want??? And you get buy backs!!! Buy 3 get 1 free :-)

I love ohans. Most importantly the bartenders are super friendly and sweet (and generous when they pour). Drinks are very cheap and every three drinks you get one free! The same key people are always at ohanlans. I’ve been going there regularly for a year and a half and this bar can go from quiet and mellow to really upbeat and fun. I’ve even spent New Years here and it was appropriately packed, loud, and drunken plus there was champagne. And cake. They’ve had live music and events here from time to time but most days it’s just a good local stop for a drink and some take out food (Frankie’s across the street is a good option but they also have delivery menus if you want). Lastly it pops up on my Unilocal in the wrong location. It’s right at the last stop on the n or q.

A great dive bar for cheap drinks, no frills here, one bartender, internet jukebox and few tvs. great for starting the night.

Good local spot to stop by and have a drink. Too bad this place doesn’t have a kitchen for food. The décor is a bit dated and dark, thus it gives this place it’s character.

the decore can use some updating. i wish they had food to eat in the bar. its more of an older chrowd.

You want a dive bar to pass the time at while you wait for the Q or the N train? This is the place for you!

Best dive bar in Astoria!
The bar is nice and dark. Right off of the Ditmars train station. The bartenders are always friendly, and you don’t have a long wait for a drink.
They are a cash only place. They do not do tabs anymore as well. But those are the only downsides to this bar.
If you’re looking for a divey place to grab a few well made drinks. Don’t look any further than O’Hanlon’s!

I love this place. My friends live a few blocks away and introduced me to this place and I LOVE it. Cheap drinks, chill vibe, completely unpretentious, great bartenders (with buybacks if you’re nice!). No food but you can grab a slice across the street and bring it into the bar. Live music occasionally but otherwise a decent mix of tunes from the jukebox or from the bartender’s iPod.
Total neighborhood dive bar in all the right ways.

I live very close to this place, but walked past it for the past 10 years. I was always kind of intimidated by the tough sorts hanging around outside, but one night when I Seriously Needed a Drink at a Dive and didn’t want to pay the markup at Sparrow or walk to McCann’s I stepped in. It was a weeknight, and the earlyish weeknight crowd had a lot of old guys who you knew showed up when the place opened that AM.
Still, the crowd was friendly, the drinks were appropriately priced, and I got a buyback. Need to make this a regular hang.

I went here on a Friday night and had a great time!

This place has the friendliest staff I have ever met, especially in New York. These ladies are fantasticly warm, kind, and giving. i don’t know what i would do without this bar to be able to unwind and decompress. Long live O’Hanlon’s! Oh yeah… their buy backs are awesome. Every hour is happy hour.

Exit light. Enter night.
It’s dark in here. Dark places like this one are where secrets are exchanged, where pacts are given life, where bargains are made for a small fee (usually your soul).
If you see me here, it’s because I’m pregaming. I always expect Jack Nicholson to come out from the back and tell me there’s a snitch in the bar. Then I expect Ray Winstone to hover over me and ask me if I still want a cranberry juice.
The bartenders are always pleasant though. The visitors always seem to want to keep to themselves while they watch Sportscenter.
It’s the kind of place you visit with a friend so you can talk in hushed whispers as you down a shot and a beer. You talk about how poorly the Red Sox are faring; you discuss how your girlfriend kicked you out because you didn’t want to visit her mother’s home for dinner; you converse about Katy Perry’s music being awful but you’d kill your neighbor for a chance to jump into bed with the pop star.
Visit O’Hanlon’s. Share a few secrets. You might hear a few you’re glad you heard and a few you wish you hadn’t

This place became my neighbourhood dive back in December. I had become fed up with Ditmars Station next door and stumbled in here. I was immediately taken in by some of the patrons and the barkeeps. Since then, I have befriended a number of regulars and have made a point to stop in here for Rangers and Yankees games. I watched all of the Giants’ playoff games and the Super Bowl here. This dive tends to be heavily populated with Giants fans, while it tends to be split down the middle between Yankees and Mets fans. I’ve had some fascinating conversations with a number of fellow patrons and some of the barkeeps. I could write a captivating novel about this place.
Oh, and one other great thing: No one is allowed to mention Tebow’s name in the bar. This rule I love.

Very nice Irish dive. pretty bar maid. Great people. Cheap beer.

Almost don’t want to let this secret out for fear it’ll turn into the next Irish Rover (RIP when it used to be a laid back chill dive bar and has since turned into just another frat/​sorority type flannel wearing hang out).
Very friendly barstaff, great buy back policies (always very happy with the end bill result) and not only do they let you have food ordered to the bar, they even have a wide selections of delivery menus available. Very comfortable and inviting, friendly –mostly older– crowd.

I put together a bar crawl with my friends in which we tried to go to as many dive bars in Astoria as possible. This was first on my list.
Dark, divey and very towny. Looks like a dive bar you’d find in a small town in the midwest or something. Mostly old men, but the bartender was friendly and mixed drinks were only $ 4.75. Let me reiterate. $ 4.75. Does it get any better than that? And they were strong and mixed well. We have definitely been back. Trying to make it our pregaming staple.

A great neighborhood place hidden under the subway. Rough and raw as any New York dive should be. Just good clean (eh) fun.

A dark dive bar conveniently located a few feet from the Ditmars Blvd subway steps. The bartenders are friendly and are generous with the buybacks. This is a laid back locals bar, and probably the most welcoming of all the dives in the area. It’s hard to predict what the crowd will be like on any given night. Some nights you will find just two or three patrons in their 40’s or 50’s. Other nights the avg age could be 35 or lower. People describe it as seedy, but those who start trouble here are not welcomed back.
Be conscious of the kind of patrons when picking songs on the jukebox. If there are too many old timers there, the bartender might skip the punk and hardcore songs.

When I lived in Astoria, during my heavier drinking days, this was my go-​to bar. It was right down the street and I found myself right at home there.
A laid-​back Irish Pub, the place became something of a «Cheers» for my roommates and I — everyone knew our names. The bartenders are great, they’re nice Irish gals, they’re quick, and always provide a buy back after 3 drinks.
It’s a bit of a dark bar, and the crowd, unlike my former roommates and I, is usually not in it’s twenties. Most of the attendees are regulars and they’re always up for good conversation. It’s often rumored to be a bit of a seedy place to hang out, though everyone there is really nice. It’s actually a great place to unwind after work.
And despite it’s appearance, the place can actually provide the occasional hook up, if that’s what you’re looking for. (I once saw a guy in his twenties leave with a woman of about 70)
As you can guess, this isn’t the type of place to go to if your view of New York is anything reflective of Sex & the City.
Do go here if you like dive bars, laid-​back people, friendly Irish bartenders, and a good buyback policy.