Kelly’s Tavern

Whenever I come in with co workers, Tommy is the bartender.
When I come in with the hubby, John is there.
Either way, I always get a well made drink, have a good time, and the regulars are pretty approachable.
Bottom line, everyone has a story and I don’t mind listening.
Came with my cousins from England/​California last year and they enjoyed the music, pool table and darts.
Most memorable character: the guy that introduces himself with a whole rhyme that ends with «I’m like rolling thunder» said with a brogue.
All in all, my go-​to bar. Chill and mature crowd.

Dump dump casa el dumbo this is the type of place to go if you have no life are a lowlife and don’t mind the entire hood knowing allllllll your business enter at your own risk

I love this bar! I am a bartender nearby and this is where my coworkers and I go to unwind after our bar closes. The bartenders are knowledgeable and sweet and there is a pool table and a dart board.

I agree, they live to love to gossip, it’s inquisitive here
your business goes in everyone’s ears, mouth, out and about.
«Enter at your own risk» somebody told me, but I’m not facing
any challenge when I can be the challenge.
If you walk in this place, tightin’ up your verbal skills,
with some guts and bull, you keep these yokels in line.
Woman under 60 seem unhappy.
I walked in one Sunday night from the 4^th ave door,
male heads started to bop and turn to stare at me to see who I was.
When this failed they just turned back around.
Goes to show, what nosy low testosterone men you have.
I think some of these men still live with their mother and are over
45. and are sort of sissy boys. They need a whole new set of patrons here.
I would be embarrassed if my business fell into hands like a witnessed
this one night.
The moral that comes to «mind» don’t interact unless you have a game
plan, and keep it superficial.
I always urge any friends to come in after horse race nonsense is over on
Saturday’s, one day inspecting it was quite enough, and another day is
long overdue.

The most bizarre bar in brooklyn, the bar takes up a whole block you enter on 4 ave and leave out the door on 5 ave I’m sure a lot of derelicts that hang there have used that to their advantage when running from the police. The a/​c is bumping during the hot summer month the beer is cheap and cold and you get plenty of buy backs. It’s like if CHEERS was filled with junkies, neighborhood derelicts, on duty drunken MTA workers, Irish immigrants, prostitutes, alcoholics, Native American iron workers, neighbourhood drunken floozies and old men watching mets games. Don’t you want to go where every skid knows your name ??!

«It was the kind of place you wouldn’t go into, unless you knew how to use your dukes. Then – I saw her. I had to ask the sailor next to me to pinch me to make sure I wasn’t dreaming…»

Stopped by for a drink one night after moving a friend in. Was a pretty decent place, not a real big crowd, but it was a Thursday night after all!

Low key bar, good older crowd who knows how to have a good time with a juke box!!! Pool table in the back room normally with one or two decent cues. (All the other cues have broken tips cuz of idiots.) Older full size table but playable for $ 1.50 per game. Grab a roll of quarters!!! They have darts too!

Yes, first appearance is a bit dive-​y. Stay out if you’re a yuppie/​snob. Drinks are cheap, and you do get «comped» if you’re even a semi regular (or the bartenders like you). This is a neighborhood bar, no pretensions, with a good many old guys who go because that’s their social life. There’s a barbecue on Sundays, as a previous reviewer mentioned. Corned beef & cabbage dinner on St Patrick’s Day, as well as on the day of Bay Ridge’s St Patrick’s Parade. free Thanksgiving Dinner on the day. They have trips to ball games, the track, golf outings, as well as benefits for patrons who’ve lost loved ones & have trouble paying bills, or who have health or other problems. The owners are good-​hearted Irish brothers who care about their community. Heard a funny story once about a guy who’d had too many and was ejected by the bartender. He stumbled around the block, and tried to come in on the 5^th avenue side. the bartender told him to be on his way, again, and the guy said.“Jeez, do you work in every bar in Bay Ridge”?

Gotta say, I love this place. It is a bit of a dive — but a very well taken care of dive. The people in there are middle aged and protect that place like it’s their child (don’t expect to be wild and crazy, they likely will force you out). The drinks aren’t too expensive and so far, all the bartenders that have served me drinks comped me a couple times or made the drinks really strong. On Sunday’s they do a BBQ outside with hotdogs, burgers, and sometimes the most delicious grilled chicken wings I’ve ever tasted. Overall, everyone is very friendly and as long as you’re just looking for a quiet spot to grab a strong drink and watch the game, you’re good at this place.

Albeit… the reviews are all accurate in some form or another. I must admit… and be perfectly candid here, THIS is the attraction for me. Nothing better than walking in and seeing the one poor soul sleeping ZZZZZZZZ at the bar. My first visit here was truley baptism by Fire, with someone shouting ‘in tongues’ across the bar! and then a 3am pool match with some guy from the former Yugoslavia area. I have a friend who shares the ame enthusiasm for these colorful inhabitants of this… watering hole, and I likewise have ones that threaten me with bodily harm if I even suggest going here. What can I say, I like the view of the bridge from the front door !

Real Brooklyn Part ??
Wow. Another «do I live in the same neighborhood» moment, after reading the reviews for this place.
Ok. This place is a little bit of a dump.
Yes, a LOT of the patrons might not have all their choppers in tact, but they are sharp as tacks!
I’ve been in only several bars in my life, that run from one avenue to the other, with an entrance on each side.
This is the only one that was in the movie Saturday night fever.
Good sports. (more Mets for baseball)
Wasn’t wild about $ 4 for a Bud light after work tonight, but whatever.
Great juke box, pool table in the back, and decent conversation if you’re a willing partner.

The genius of Kelly’s is that if you’re hassled on the 4^th Avenue side by the oldster in the crusty Notre Dame jacket who invites you to «climb inside my parka, pussy boy,» you can always escape on the 5^th Avenue side. They inexplicably have «Legalize It» on the jukebox, which reliably infuriates the clientele when it’s played. Most nights, though, if you act like a normal person, you’ll find that it’s a friendly place with cheap beer. Short mugs used to be 50 cents, but I’d be surprised if it’s north of a dollar today.

It’s the bar that time forgot.
We went in on a blazingly bright Sunday afternoon. It was just as bright inside the bar. The barstools were filled with twenty or so patrons who could’ve passed for extras in a 1970’s movie set in a Kentucky masonic lodge. One bald, early-​sixties dude in non-​ironic aviator glasses looked me up and down like he wanted to eat me all three times I had to walk past him. No thanks, creepy guy.
I have a friend who loves this place and swears by it. Now, I like a dive bar every now and again, but this is just too sketchy, far gone, and sad even for me.

Yikes. Just Yikes. Stay away from this place unless you enjoy a pervading sense of impending injury and misfortune. Do you think if we all wished hard enough it would turn into a brand new «fun time USA»? Worth a shot.

This place is a total dump. Not only a real neighborhood eyesore, but a breeding ground for flophouses dwelling mutts along with other assorted né’er do-​wells. I personally hope to see this place burns to the ground along the 3 other business connected to it, those being the jinxed former mazda now Volkswagon dealership, the turkish food place infested with rodent sized cockroaches and the Universal Auto Repair shop that is yet another degenerate magnet. I WILL GIVE CREDIT FOR ITS FAN LOYALTY TO NY TEAMS, SPECIFICALLY THE JETS. You can always see the same lowlives here every fall cheering on their blue-​collar teams (read Mets/​Jets.) There is also a certain element that tends to bring the party outside the small triangle park to sit on park benches and peddle drugs.
Now to bring my rambling to a close, its a good place to go if you think you have problems in life, this place will certainly put things in perspective!