A.A. Meetings in New York City: Which List to Use, Borough by Borough

Last reviewed: October 2026

New York City has the opposite problem from most of the state. Upstate, the question is whether there is a meeting within reasonable driving distance tonight. Here there are thousands of meetings a week, several in the same building on the same evening, and the hard part is working out which of the lists in front of you to trust.

You can see it in the links on this site. Manhattan and the Bronx point to one organization, Brooklyn and Queens to their own, and Staten Island to something else again. The reasons are mostly history. What matters is which list to use in each borough, and which numbers to call when you would rather talk to a person.

One citywide list and two borough lists

The organization that keeps most of the city's meeting information is New York Inter-Group, usually shortened to NYIG. It describes its own territory as the five boroughs and Westchester County, and it says there are over 2,800 meetings a week in that area. A count of its list this autumn backs that up: a little under 2,900 entries, around a third of them online.

Manhattan accounts for the largest share by a wide margin, roughly 1,270 of those entries. Brooklyn and Westchester come next at around 440 each, then Queens at about 280, the Bronx at about 140 and Staten Island at about 90. Online meetings get filed under a borough too, so read those figures as a sense of scale rather than a count of rooms.

Brooklyn and Queens also run intergroups of their own, and each keeps its own meeting list. They feed NYIG rather than compete with it. The change form on the Brooklyn site sends a group's update to Brooklyn Intergroup, to NYIG and to the Meeting Guide app at once, and Queens sends its updates to its own list and to Meeting Guide. In practice the borough list is the one kept closest to the ground, and it sometimes carries meetings the citywide one has missed. In Queens this autumn the borough's own finder had around 330 entries against roughly 280 for Queens on the citywide list.

For Manhattan and the Bronx, then, use NYIG. For Brooklyn and Queens, start with the borough site and treat the citywide list as a second check. Staten Island needs a section of its own.

Staten Island is the odd one out

Staten Island has no separate intergroup. The old address, statenislandaa.org, now carries a notice that the site has moved, and points to statenisland.aaseny.org. That newer site belongs to Staten Island General Services, which is part of A.A.'s general service structure rather than an intergroup. For meetings it links back to NYIG's Staten Island listings and also keeps a printable list, and for a phone line it gives NYIG's hotline number.

To find a meeting on the island, use the citywide list filtered to Staten Island, and check the printable one if something looks out of date.

Intergroup and area are different things

You will also run into Southeastern New York, Area 49, at aaseny.org, which covers the city and the counties to its north. Areas belong to A.A.'s general service structure, which runs from groups up to an annual General Service Conference. Southeastern New York's own site puts the distinction well: it notes that intergroups sit outside that decision-making structure altogether. They exist to keep the schedule current and answer the phone.

For finding a meeting, you can almost always ignore the area. It becomes relevant if you get involved in service later on. The guide to areas, districts and intergroups explains how the two structures fit together if you are curious.

Phone lines worth knowing

A website tells you what is scheduled. A volunteer on the phone usually knows what is happening tonight, and the two differ more often than you would hope.

NYIG's line is not a 24-hour service. The organization says it would like it to be once it has enough volunteers to cover the night shifts. Until then, the Queens line is the one to call in the small hours. It answers around the clock, and nobody on it will mind that you are calling from Manhattan.

Meetings in Spanish

The city has a Spanish-language central office of its own, the Oficina Central Hispana de Alcohólicos Anónimos de New York, at 1411 Fifth Avenue in East Harlem, between 115th and 116th Streets. Its website, oficinacentralhispanany.org, has not been updated in some time, so treat the phone as the reliable route and call before visiting.

NYIG's list also lets you filter for Spanish-speaking meetings, and this autumn it carried a little under fifty. Spanish-speaking groups take part in general service through the Comité de Distritos Hispanos within Area 49, at aacdhseny49.org, which is more useful for service and events than for finding a meeting tonight.

Clubhouses, early mornings and very late nights

Much of Manhattan's schedule does not happen in church basements at all. A handful of clubhouses rent space to many groups and run meetings through the whole day, which is useful to know because you can walk into one at almost any hour and find something about to start.

• The Mustard Seed, 122 East 37th Street in Murray Hill, runs meetings from 7:30 in the morning, with the last one starting around 8 in the evening.
• The Perry Street Workshop, 50 Perry Street in the West Village, lists around seventy meetings a week, the first at 7:30 a.m.
• Midnite, 220 West Houston Street, is the one to know about late at night. It holds an in-person meeting at 11:59 p.m. most nights, and on Fridays and Saturdays adds another at 2 in the morning, with online meetings running alongside.

At the other end of the day, the earliest in-person meetings on NYIG's list start at 6 a.m. in Manhattan churches, among them Holy Name on West 96th Street and St. Mary the Virgin on West 46th. Nothing on the current lists runs around the clock, but between the 6 a.m. starts and the midnight meeting the gap is short, and online meetings cover it entirely. The guide to online and hybrid meetings explains how those work.

Venues and times change, and clubhouses come and go, so check the current listing before you set off.

Filters worth using in a city this size

With this many meetings, the type filter matters more here than anywhere else in the state. A few of the categories that exist in useful numbers:

• LGBTQ. Over a hundred meetings a week are listed this way. The LGBT Community Center at 208 West 13th Street hosts more than a dozen of them.
• ASL and deaf-accessible. A small number, in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Few enough that it is worth calling ahead to confirm interpretation will be there.
• Women's, men's, young people's, beginners'. All well represented. A beginners' meeting is a gentler first hour than a long-running step study.
• In-person, online or hybrid. The list mixes all three. If you want a room with people in it, set the filter, or a good part of your results will be video links.

The open and closed markings work the same way as anywhere else. An open meeting welcomes anyone interested in A.A., including a friend who has come along with you. A closed meeting is for people who want to stop drinking themselves. The guide to what happens at a first meeting covers this and the rest of the hour.

The General Service Office is here too

A.A.'s General Service Office, which publishes the literature and serves groups across the United States and Canada, is based in Morningside Heights at 475 Riverside Drive, in the Interchurch Center. It welcomes visitors on weekdays and gives tours of about 45 minutes, at 10 and 11 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. On Fridays an open meeting at 11 is followed by a tour at 12:15.

The building requires visitors to register in advance, so book through gsotours@aa.org or 212-870-3430 before turning up. The office does not sell literature on site. Members visiting from elsewhere often make a point of going, and it is an interesting hour for anyone curious about where the whole thing comes from.

When the listing is wrong

Listings go stale everywhere, and the city adds reasons of its own. Churches close for repairs, landlords change the locks, a clubhouse loses its lease, and listings catch up weeks later. Holiday weeks are the least reliable of all, since many rooms close or shorten their hours, which the guide to getting through the holidays deals with in more detail.

If you arrive and the door is locked, call one of the lines above. In most of Manhattan and large parts of Brooklyn and Queens, there is another meeting within a short walk or a couple of subway stops, and the volunteer will know which one is open tonight.

Long Island and the counties north

Past the city line, the lists change hands. Westchester is covered by NYIG itself. NYIG also carries over a hundred listings for Putnam and Dutchess, though Putnam keeps its own general service site at putnamcountynyaa.org. Rockland and Orange counties have meeting sites of their own, linked from the main page.

On Long Island, Nassau Intergroup has moved to nassauintergroup.org, and the old address redirects there. It runs a 24-hour line on 516-292-3040. Suffolk County Intergroup is at suffolkny-aa.org, with a 24-hour line on 631-669-1124.

Common questions

Can I go to a meeting in a borough I do not live in?

Yes. Meetings have no catchment area, and people in the city routinely choose a meeting near work, near a subway stop or simply at the right hour.

Is there a 24-hour A.A. hotline in New York City?

Queens Intergroup answers 718-520-5021 around the clock. New York Inter-Group, on 212-647-1680, is staffed from 9 a.m. until after midnight. Either will help you wherever in the city you are.

Can visitors to New York go to meetings?

Yes. Members visiting from elsewhere attend meetings in the city all the time, and nobody will ask where you are from. The Meeting Guide app draws on the NYIG, Brooklyn and Queens lists, so it works here the same way it does at home.

Which list is right when two of them disagree?

Usually the one kept by the borough intergroup, or whichever entry was updated more recently. If it matters, call the hotline rather than guessing.