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Categories: Pubs, Sports Bars [Edit]
Neighborhood: Theater DistrictTimes Square-42nd St (1, 2, 3, S, 7, N, Q, R, W, A, C, E)
42nd St-5th Ave-6th Ave (7, B, D, F, V)
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First off, what are you doing in Times Sq.? This place is the only real thing left in that plastic monstrosity. Basic drinks are $4 (even mixed!), and come with just enough attitude to make you feel special. special advice from the ancient bartender: "real bars" don't have food, and jimmy's is a "real bar".
If you're stuck in the area and need a cheap pint in a quiet family-run place, Jimmy's is for you.
A great gem off of Broadway. A place where most will never go - but if you find yourself near Time Square, you should visit!
I came here directly from the airport to meet a friend for a drink. We stayed several hours and I think I spent more here than the cost of the plane ticket from the west coast. I had a better time in the hours at Jimmy's corner than I did on the airplane so it was definitely worth it! ;^p
Lots of great images and memorabilia on the walls. You can even get the opportunity to meet Jimmy.
Sam Adams on tap for $4 in Midtown Manhattan. How does this place afford to pay rent???
Cheap beers, no food (can't bring your own food either), slightly musty odor, kinda unfriendly service... but I love it! Not the type of place you'd bring a first date (unless you need to prove to her that you're not an uptight yuppie).
Sam Adams is the "fanciest" beer they have on tap. Don't come here expecting to be able to order some organic craft beer from Vermont or something like this; this is a Budweiser type place.
Hard to complain about this place. A friend was in from San Francisco and staying at the Millennium across the street; he's a sportswriter and knew Jimmy's Corner by reputation. On a Tuesday night the bar was alive with a crowd of locals, with Jimmy himself among them. The prices hearken back to another era ($4 Stellas? $4.50 Maker's Marks?), and the atmosphere is classic. We had a few very pleasant drinks at the bar, lost in conversation. The music is soul, piped in from a big jukebox. The crowd has zero pretense. All told, you'd be hard-pressed to find a nicer (or more affordable) place for a drink or three near Times Square.
This is great little spot to hit up if you're just wanting a few cheap drinks and a chance to chat up some strangers in a dive setting. And, if you're lucky, you might get a chance to talk to Jimmy as he casually floats through the bar (I don't care what he says, Muhammad Ali was better than Sugar Ray Robinson). The walls are covered with pictures of ex-boxers and actors who portrayed boxers and that famous jukebox cranks out nothing but Rat Pack era music. You're dad would love it.
My only gripe: those AREN'T full shots! That's why they're so cheap!
I found this bar by chance when I turned 21 since I had an internship with a financial firm a few blocks away. Jimmies is the perfect place to relax, enjoy a $3 draft beer, and get a small table in the back with your friends.
I have started a number of pub crawls here and they have always shown me a good time. Good booze, music, people, atmosphere and if you're not a d-bag to swanni, lina, and marta -- your glass will never be empty.
Gone here twice. Great for boxing fans. He's got pics and promo posters and photos from every major fight you can think of up to about 10 or so years ago. An actual ring bell from MSG is at the front corner of the bar (don't even think about touching it). Beer is cheap. Liquor is cheap. Bought a couple of rounds for a few friends one night, and the bill was half what I thought it would be. Jimmy hangs around on occasion, and I was lucky enough to talk with him for a bit one of the two nights I was there. Nice guy. A couple of the servers were a bit attitudeish, and the older lady who serves there was a little crisp, but hey. On the whole, a really laid back place. Like it a lot.
Nice mellow place in theater district with lots of character. A gem of a bar in a neighborhood with lots of touristy places. This place stands out and is very "New York." It's small but nice to sit at the bar and check out the boxing memorabilia.
when I awoke the next morning, I found an atm receipt for $200...but only $0.13 in my pocket, my shoelaces hung and ironed, and chicken feathers all over the room.
these are the words that haunt me after my time at jimmy's corner.
Another bartender at another bar led me to this place.
The music from the box of juke serenaded the room and like the bar scene from the movie the shining, the atmosphere was thick with character.
Drinks $4...not sure what I didn't drink as they just kept appearing, but smiles i remember from behind the bar.
Its all a haze. My orifices appear intact and my mouth ironically minty fresh.
...mama said knock you out.
I'm gonna knock you out.
jimmy done knocked me out...
...more if I remembers, but yeah, this place ranks up there with the bars called the dives.
A perfect little dive replete with boxing memorabilia, cheap drinks, good-humored bartenders, and bar snacks. You won't believe you're in Times Square.
Me: "Have any happy hour specials?"
Lady: "Honey, we're happy when you get here with your smiling face."
Me: "Ok...think I'll have a gin martini on the rocks then."
So went my first exchange with the great bartendress at Jimmy's Corner. And it really doesn't get much better than Jimmy's for after-work bars in the Times Square area, especially considering that our other standby is a pizza place with a bar attached (Pizza Pronto).
Needless to say, Jimmy's blows that place out of the water on atmosphere: It's a homey, neighborhood dive from the old New York, before Giuliani's squeegee wiped the city clean. Boxing photos from the golden days and various heavyweight paraphernalia clutter every inch of the walls, alongside an occasional poster advertising a long-finished fight. Neighborhood regulars crowd the bar stools, hunched over their beers, nary a tourist to be seen. And best of all, the drinks are cheap. Or maybe it's just my smiling face.
So I walk in to the bar, sportscenter on, Tony Bennett playing on the jukebox, and boxing photos all over the wall. Usually not my scene, but I liked the relaxed atmosphere of it. Just don't bring attention to yourself because a bunch of tourists got put in their place by the bartender for trying to move tables together.
Drinks are cheap, usually $3 or $4 a beer, terrific deal considering it's double that in most of the other bars in this area. A great place to meet a friend or two for a couple drinks after work. I'm looking forward to going again and hopefully seeing Jimmy himself behind the bar.
3.5 rounded up
For the overpriced shit-show that is Times Square, this is a true gem. 3 drinks + tip = $15. 'Nuff said.
While it may not be much to look out, if you can find room to squeeze in at the bar then this is the place to be in midtown. It's literally around the corner from Time's Square and the drinks are cheap, not just by NY standards but in general. I recommend it and I'd go back.
Each drink is about $4.....you cannot find that anywhere else in midtown new york! The staff here are friendly....got a funny sense of humor too!
In the world of sensory overload which is mid manhat cut down 44th and hit the best dive bar in Time Square!
The drinks are actually reasonably priced for modest pours, the jukebox is soul full, and the decor is a boxing history lesson. Oh and Pretzels unlimited preztels but if you don't like pretz bring in your own damn food cause they don't mind.
Get lucky you might even meet Jimmy one of the finest cut men in boxing history ( he has a mean whisky pour too) .
Wow.
A friend took me here when I visited the city long before I moved here...
After a lot of walking around and then being bombarded by the Times Square Blitzkrieg of Whizbang, I was pleasantly relieved when she dipped into this tiny place. I felt instantly at home. Now THIS was a place I could relax and have a drink.
Bowls of mixed nuts on the bar, a personable and non-patronizing bartender, phat soul tunes, all bathed in some of that greasy yellow-green-orange light that seems to transport me to another time and place.
And fucking Jimmy. The old cat's just standing around in the back with a friend, watching black & white footage of a long-ago boxing match and delivering a running commentary as if he was *there*... hell, maybe he was. He is a retired boxer, after all.
This bar feels like family. There are regulars, the folk treat each other with respect, and it's all good.
Basically, if (more like, when) I'm an old drunk, I will be one of the locals at Jimmy's. Hands down the best kept secret in midtown - basically, a bar like this doesn't belong in the middle of Times Square. Jimmy himself is usually walking around, chatting it up and telling old boxing stories. Beautiful jazz and old soul songs play in rotation in the background, and there's always a TV or two tuned to ESPN Classic. Perfect place to grab some cheap drinks, catch up with an old friend, or to just relax after a rough day. Pictures and fliers of old boxing matches fill the walls, making it feel like you stepped back into old-time NY. All in all, Jimmy's is exactly how Alex E. put it: fucking legit.
Midtown's best kept secret! A good bar requires decent music, a lively crows and a infinite supply of inexpensive beer - well, look no further!! Certainly affordable and if you're lucky (or a regular) you may get a cameo by Jimmy himself. The walls are covered in boxing memorabilia too, which makes the place even more distinctive and will allow you to look at stuff if you can't think of anything to talk about. Get there early cause this place is busy by 6pm.
Surprisingly - a good place to meet for casual catch-up with friends and just relax over drinks. The whole place has an ultra casual vibe to it.
May be little too relaxed to take your clients or business colleagues.
Shhhh. Don't tell anyone about this place. I want it to be our little secret. If you don't say anything about the classic soul/jazz jukebox, cheap drinks or it being a gem in middle of an insufferable hellhole, they won't overrun it and ruin the great dive vibe.
This is a bar where you meet up with friends after work and drink and chat. Jimmy and his wife run the place usually with one or two other bartenders. The jukebox plays nice stuff like R&B from the 70s and 80s.
The bar surface is made up of lacquer covered photos of the patrons. They have snacks with cheesy bits that I eat first. This is a good reliable place that's not too loud, not too quiet.
Just steps away from the neon Disney hell that is Times Square is this little hole in the wall bar that didn't get the memo from Rudy that they cauterized Times Squares of all its grime and originality. To this day you will still see Jimmy overseeing the daily ops of his namesake bar. Its not particularly clean, not particularly classy, and definitely awesome in every way. A throwback jukebox blares music that would give Quentin Tarantino a hardon, and the framed art that adorns every square inch of free wall space chronicles the history of boxing and boxing celebrities mugging at the camera with Jimmy.
I would spend way too much time here if it were closer to me, so my liver is thankful for the binds of geography. Especially when a round of drafts for three is $11...yes....thats $11, in Manhattan...
WHOA, MAMA.
A bunch of friends took me here for a post-show party. I am in love.
Let me count the reasons:
1) The (lovely, adorable) waitress came back to our table, took out orders, brought us our drinks, and then told us how much our drinks were, took our money right then, BROUGHT US CHANGE...I mean....need I go on? Never such service in my life!
2) $4 Sam Adams. And, according to friends, $4 for top-shelf stuff. What?!
3) Amazing, amazing jukebox. We went from Al Green to Michael Jackson to Christmas music to a an old recording of "You're Just in Love." Rinse and repeat.
4) The decor.
5) The proprietor.
6) The proprietor's presence in the bar.
Oh my god. I can't wait to go back.
After receiving multiple recommendations to come to this place for its celeb sightings, sports bar mecca, and the fact that the infamous Jimmy Glenn from the boxing world opened this place. Aside from the cheap drinks, the place was hardly the ambiance of a good sports bar. Sure it had memorabilia of boxing legends galore all over the walls, but the place was practically dead during NCAA March Madness Finals. It was a sad sight to witness the crowded bar but the empty tables all around. It could've been the fact that it was raining, but I soon realized that the small tube tvs dangling from the ceiling were muted anyways. The bar had no more than 5-6 TVs cramped in a tiny, yet narrow spot.
Our waitress forced our group to sit down and order a drink since there was a "$10" minimum per person. The out of towners I brought here were turned off almost instantaneously and it was hard to blame them. Her shotty service was on a night where there was practically no one else there yet she took her sweet time in delivering the drinks. Much to say she was very rude when she refused to come to our table to collect the check.
I couldn't help but wonder what Jimmy was thinking at the time. I'm sure this place is very different on some nights, or it wouldn't garner such a huge following. Perhaps its just my bad luck in that case and I got TKO'd in my first match here. This place, which is sure to attract some tourists due to its Times Square location, won't attracting me anytime soon.
Nothing fancy -- your typical dive. Except, this is around Times Square. Perfect if you wanna hang out for cheap beer. I don't live in NYC, but I'd imagine it's a nice after-work place -- kinda like Zeke's or HoS in San Francisco. :-)
Service could be slow, but it's worth it. Seems like it's run by an old couple -- very friendly peeps.
I can't believe people could be so harsh on this place. First off, it's one of the great go-to bars in the Times Square/Theater District. I open pick this place to meet people from out of town and to meet a small (not MUCH space to work with, it's a little closet of a bar) crew in the area before a show.
I'm not positive, but I believe the owner is a boxing trainer, so the best part is the floor to ceiling college of awards, newspaper clippings, orange-tinted photos, all boxing memorabilia. You can spend hours checking out the stuff, but unfortunately people would have a tough time squeezing by to get to the restrooms in back if you spent your time perusing the walls. The drinks are stiff and cheap, and the Motown classics on the jukebox keep the spirit from being brought down by the occasional crying clown sitting at the bar. For me, it's an institution!
Oh, shady New York City of the past, where have you gone..... Channel the good old days here at Jimmy's.
I sat at a table in the back with a friend and got silly drunk off $3 Budweiser (bottles) and bud lights (drought). Aside from Siberia (which, by the way, I think is closed now? oh god, I think it's time for me to leave New York), this is the only bar near Times Square worth going to. It's cheap, grimy, and could not possibly be more perfect.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this place.
How great that there is a local neighborhood bar right near the glitz and corporate chains in Times Square. Warm and charming in a dive bar way, friendly staff, reasonable prices for beers. Very small, though, so you might have trouble getting a table on a busy night. Love the boxing memorabilia on the walls, but I didn't get the feeling that I was in a sports bar. More like a punk club without the band posters and live music. Highly recommended if you are in the area and need to get away from the Disney stink.
This is a great bar with NO pretentiousness. Steps away from Broadway and located on 44th my hotel was right across the street.
Well drinks are $4.00 each and the place is busy all the way until 4am most nights.
This place is a nostalgic stop for those with a passion for boxing. Jimmy has owned the place for 30+ years and has many a story about the world of boxing. Plenty of pictures line the walls with the last 30-50 years of boxing memorabilia.
It's a place to drink!
Waiter was attentive, was lucky to get a table during happy hour, $4 pints of bud light. Lots to look at.
if you find yourself
stuck in hellacious Times Square,
here's your oasis.
Your best bet for a drink near Times Square. No frills, good atmosphere, entertaining boxing memorabilia, fun friendly staff.
I would never expect a place like this to be in the location its in. This was a really cool, laid back little bar. All the patrons seemed like they were locals. The bartenders were extremely friendly. Beers were cheap. Jukebox was great. Pictures covering the walls were interesting. No annoying/rowdy types. Definitely coming back, hopefully next time I do Jimmy will be there
I love this bar. If you work in Midtown, it's difficult to find a place that has even cheaper drinks than crappy happy hours in the area. A dive bar to the max, where Jimmy is in his place nightly. As a man who used to box and train boxers, Jimmy's corner provides an oasis amongst those who want to escape from New York's vibrant business attitude and speed after work.
Cheap beverages, decent service and Stax singles on the jukebox makes this bar one of my favorite watering holes in midtown.
What a great place! I came here for a drink before a play. Nice decor, nice service, nice music. The bar is like a long narrow hallway with small seating area in the back. Well drinks are about 4-5 bucks, which is pretty great for the area. I wouldn't say this is the place where you'll go to pick up a guy, unless you're into theater people. It's mostly a bar to hang out and chill out. But a nice one it is.
Oh man do I love this place, it's one of the few honest dive bars left in the city, the kind of place you only share with good friends for fear it'll be taken over by the same kind of people that have destroyed almost all the other honest watering holes in this city. (remember when Rudy's was ok? anyone?)
I try to get back to New York at least once a year to soak up the vibe, and Jimmy's Corner is always on my itinerary. To me, the place epitomizes the best of the city - people from all walks of life hanging out, getting along, tolerating, and even interacting with, each other . I've met theater people, doormen, publishing types, limo drivers, dancers, and all kinds of other interesting people there. The jukebox is always top-notch (there used to be a better one in the neighborhood, at Tin Pan Alley, but that building was torn down about 20 years ago). While they can sometimes be as brusque as any service worker in NY - I have always found the staff to be friendly and responsive. I followed boxing as a teenager, and my appreciation of the sport is always renewed as soon as I sit down at the bar. Easily my favorite bar in the city.
This place was really cool. The walls are covered in boxing photos and other memorabilia . Its a dive bar, really intimate, and really cool! I do love boxing, so this was just so much fun! I loved it. Its a hole in the wall place, but a small group can cram around a table and have some drinks. People who worked there were friendly.
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