Happy Hours in Brooklyn, New York

Fifth Avenue is Brooklyn's happy hour spine, running from Park Slope down into Sunset Park with more listed windows than any other street in the borough. High Dive at 243 Fifth lists $3 PBR with $4 wells. Logan's Run at 375 lists $4 Miller. Block Hill Station, further south at 718, lists $5 pints of Bud. That is a price band Manhattan gave up years ago, and it holds across a couple of miles of one avenue.

The beer-and-shot combo is the borough's signature listing. Talon Bar on Wyckoff Avenue in Bushwick lists an Estrella and a shot for $6, and Reclamation Bar on Metropolitan Avenue lists the same pairing at $9 across a five-hour weekday stretch. Wine drinkers do better on Atlantic Avenue, where Bacchus Bistro lists $4 house wines from 5 to 7.

Grand Street, Smith Street and Bedford Avenue fill out the rest of the map, and one habit runs through all of them: six in ten listed windows open at 4 PM, with almost nothing before 3. Weekend coverage is thin at about one listing in nine, though a handful of places are built for it, and Native on Broadway lists $10 hibiscus drinks on Saturday and Sunday afternoons only. Hours and prices here come from public sources and move without warning, so treat them as a starting point rather than a guarantee.