Pony Bar Hell’s Kitchen to close its doors

The Pony Bar Hell’s Kitchen, a mainstay on the West Side for craft beer for the past eight years, will close its doors for the final time on Super Bowl Sunday night. The bar has hosted beer dignitaries and poured thousands of different beers over its life, and will wind down service this week as it passes to new ownership. The other Pony Bar location – on the Upper East Side – will remain open.

Owner Dan McLaughlin sold his interest in his three bars on this stretch of 10th Avenue (Lansdowne Road and Kiabacca were the others), but continues to own the Upper East Side Pony Bar and its marks. The existing Hell’s Kitchen bar will reopen later this month as a new concept under its new owners.

The Pony Bar opened in 2009 and was one of the earliest craft beer bars in Hell’s Kitchen.