New York nightlife - British Airways

Kick off New York nightlife with a designer cocktail with Chelsea's post-work crowd, or slip into an East Village bar for a cold beer. For dance-till-dawn nightlife, join New York clubbers for deep house in the Meatpacking District. If you fancy New York's cultured nightlife, head to a Broadway show or opera at the Met.

New York nightlife: bars

Sample New York nightlife with designer cocktails and try Chelsea's bars for New York's best concoctions, shaken with style. West Village is the hub of New York's gay nightlife, from heady DJ-bars to historic Stonewall. Enjoy balmy New York evenings on a Midtown Manhattan rooftop bar to see New York's lights below. Bar-hop your way around East Village for Latino DJ-bars, or New York's no-nonsense watering holes where cold beer is New Yorker's drink of choice.

New York nightlife: clubs

If you want to party with New York's clubbers, head to the Meatpacking District where top New York DJs pump out deep house and RnB until dawn. Sample nightlife at New York's DJ bars in Chelsea and Flatiron where the post-midnight volume cranks up for the urban professionals to dance. Head to Lower East Side for New York nightlife's edgy feel, from rock taverns to New York clubs playing gypsy dance music.

New York nightlife: entertainment

Catch the best New York nightlife with live jazz in Greenwich Village's unpretentious basement bars, where new talent rubs shoulders with established acts. Catch a production at the grand theatres of New York's famous Broadway, or cutting-edge plays at smaller venues Off-Broadway. If you're a classical music fan, New York's multi-venue Lincoln Centre has everything from opera in the glitzy Met to modern dance on outdoor plazas. To experience nightlife New York style, cheer on poets at a slam poetry competition in East Village.