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Every Sunday at 5 PM
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Rise Bar·859 9th Ave, New York, NY 10019· Directions·(646) 892-3313·Website
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Sunday afternoon tea dance at Rise Bar with DJ Steve Sidewalk and DJ Paul Leasure spinning from 5pm to 10pm. Drink specials run until 9pm and bar bites are available all night — a low-key, reliably fun way to ease into the evening with good music, good people, and dance floor energy that keeps the regulars coming back.
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Tuesday nights at Rise belong to the bingo crowd! Join drag host Evita Loca for a free-to-play bingo night packed with fabulous prizes, tasty bites, and happy hour specials until 9pm. It's the kind of low-key, reliably fun weekly tradition that keeps the neighborhood coming back — grab your balls and settle in at 6:30pm.
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Cut Throat Karaoke at Rise in Hell's Kitchen is the Tuesday night sing-along where the mic gets passed around fast and the crowd comes ready to cheer loud. Hosted by Emily McNamara with sound and music by DJ TK, singing kicks off at 11pm, so grab a spot early and pick a song you can commit to. Head to 859 9th Avenue at 55-56th Street in NYC.
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Wild Wednesdays is Rise Bar's weekly drag spectacle — a rotating lineup of powerhouse performers including Brenda Dharling, Bootsie LeFaris, Lexington Banks, Pattaya Hart, and Skye Walker, with DJ John Marto driving the energy all night. Seating at 10:30pm means you can settle in for a full show, then stick around for the dance floor. This is the midweek reset Hell's Kitchen actually shows up for, week after week.
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About the venue
Rise Bar is a gay bar at 859 Ninth Avenue in Hell's Kitchen, in the stretch of Ninth Avenue that has most of Manhattan's gay bars. It's best known for weekend drag brunch, which reviewers rate highly, and it runs as a regular bar at night. It has 4.5 on Google from about 1,100 reviews…
“The show is full of energy. Food was amazing and drinks endless. Best drag brunch in NYC.” — Tandy Kinard, Google
“loved the girls, love the drinks, loved the food, loved singing with my friends ❤️” — Chelsea Phillips, Google
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