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New York has 3,803 AA meetings listed across 753 cities, held every day of the week at churches, community centers, and online. Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in New York are free and confidential, and open to anyone with a desire to stop drinking, with no membership, referral, or fee required.
New York State carries one of the deepest AA traditions in the country, anchored by New York Intergroup (founded 1946, one of the oldest continuously operating AA service offices) and extended across the five boroughs, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, the Capital Region, the Mohawk Valley, the Finger Lakes, Western New York, and the North Country. The directory lists meetings in all 62 counties.
The largest AA intergroup listed in New York is New York Inter-Group, with 808 meetings. Call them at (212) 647-1680 or visit nyintergroup.org for meeting updates and local AA service information. 24 other AA service offices serve New York, listed further down this page.
24/7 Meetings--24 Hour International Marathon Meeting of AA
Zoom ID 292-371-2604 (no password needed). Available 24 hours a day as an open discussion meeting, with a lead and 5 minute shares. 1st and 3rd Saturday Speaker meeting: 8am Auckland Time 2nd and Last Saturday Speaker meeting:11am Auckla...
MIDNITE #12920
aa Home Group - 1:30 AM to 3 AM
[Online Meetings ID: 2020061935, Password: 624101] Current daily schedule: 12:00 AM – 90-minute meeting 1:30 AM – 90-minute meeting 3:00 AM – 5:00 AM – two-hour meeting 5:00 AM through 12:00 AM – meetings beginning every hour
aaHomeGroup 24/7 Worldwide Online A.A. Meetings Zoom Meeting ID: 202 006 1935 Passcode: 624101 Website: https://aahomegroup.org Meetings are held 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All meeting times are U.S. Eastern Time.
MIDNITE #12920
aa Home Group - 3 AM to 5 AM
[Online Meetings ID: 2020061935, Password: 624101] Current daily schedule: 12:00 AM – 90-minute meeting 1:30 AM – 90-minute meeting 3:00 AM – 5:00 AM – two-hour meeting 5:00 AM through 12:00 AM – meetings beginning every hour
aaHomeGroup 24/7 Worldwide Online A.A. Meetings Zoom Meeting ID: 202 006 1935 Passcode: 624101 Website: https://aahomegroup.org Meetings are held 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All meeting times are U.S. Eastern Time.
[Online Meetings ID: 2020061935, Password: 624101] Current daily schedule: 12:00 AM – 90-minute meeting 1:30 AM – 90-minute meeting 3:00 AM – 5:00 AM – two-hour meeting 5:00 AM through 12:00 AM – meetings beginning every hour
aaHomeGroup 24/7 Worldwide Online A.A. Meetings Zoom Meeting ID: 202 006 1935 Passcode: 624101 Website: https://aahomegroup.org Meetings are held 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All meeting times are U.S. Eastern Time.
aa Home Group - 6 AM
[Online Meetings ID: 2020061935, Password: 624101] Current daily schedule: 12:00 AM – 90-minute meeting 1:30 AM – 90-minute meeting 3:00 AM – 5:00 AM – two-hour meeting 5:00 AM through 12:00 AM – meetings beginning every hour
aaHomeGroup 24/7 Worldwide Online A.A. Meetings Zoom Meeting ID: 202 006 1935 Passcode: 624101 Website: https://aahomegroup.org Meetings are held 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All meeting times are U.S. Eastern Time.
FIRST THINGS FIRST #11520
Basement Between Amsterdam Avenue & Bway Limit of 35 persons. Masks optional. The bathroom will be available to meeting attendees only. The chairperson will have a key.
Meeting ID: 748 745 6616 Case sensitive Passcode: 6am
Meeting ID: 825 1530 5518 Case sensitive Passcode: soberstart
Btwn Glen/Sea Cliff Aves; 3 fl.
Early Risers
Phone #: 929-205-6099 Meeting ID: 833 673 130 Password: 358546
Online meeting
EXCHANGE VIEWS @ ST MARGARET’S HOUSE #11459
Round Robin. Topic Meeting.
Last Sun: OD/Anniv. Meeting ID: 357 917 687 Case sensitive Passcode: 987768
E Olive St/Riverside Blvd.
Zoom Meeting ID: 691 630 673 Zoom Passcode: 850366 To join by phone dial: (646) 558-8656 Dial-in Meeting ID: 691 630 673# Dial-in Passcode: 850366#
Buffalo Early Birds is a daily, online only, co-ed open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. We have a regular beginners' room, focused on early sobriety and the first three steps of A.A.'s program of recovery. We also host breakout rooms every...
BREWSTER EARLIER BIRDS #120000
in the Christian Community Center Room
Zoom ID: 89296128710 - Zoom Password: 349356 Stewart Park, Pavilion by playground (Apr-Nov). Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W. Seneca St (Dec-Mar)
** ==== O (Open meeting) last Sun Anniversary MTG ID: 910 9947 9823 PWD: 521231 ==== Zoom Meeting ID: 982 9311 1250 Zoom Passcode: 521231 To join by phone dial: (929) 436-2866 Dial-in Meeting ID: 982 9311 1250# Dial-in Pas...
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS EARLY BIRDS #82128
Sun=AA Slogans Meeting.
** ==== O (Open meeting) last Sun Anniversary MTG ID: 910 9947 9823 PWD: 521231 ==== Zoom Meeting ID: 945 3738 7870 Zoom Passcode: 788615 To join by phone dial: (929) 436-2866 Dial-in Meeting ID: 945 3738 7870# Dial-in Pas...
[Online Meetings ID: 9569361431, Password: 12498]
#Anniv last Sun Zoom Meeting ID: 860 7064 7539 Zoom Passcode: bridge
aa Home Group - 7 AM
[Online Meetings ID: 2020061935, Password: 624101] Current daily schedule: 12:00 AM – 90-minute meeting 1:30 AM – 90-minute meeting 3:00 AM – 5:00 AM – two-hour meeting 5:00 AM through 12:00 AM – meetings beginning every hour
aaHomeGroup 24/7 Worldwide Online A.A. Meetings Zoom Meeting ID: 202 006 1935 Passcode: 624101 Website: https://aahomegroup.org Meetings are held 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All meeting times are U.S. Eastern Time.
Highland Group
Dial-In: 929-205-6099 Meeting ID: 83238828267 Pwd: 629855
Online meeting
Any online meeting is open to you wherever you are. See online AA meetings starting in the next two hours.
Most AA meetings in New York start at 7pm, with 2,121 scheduled across the week at that hour. The single busiest slot is Monday at 7pm, when 372 meetings run.
Across New York, the 3,803 listed AA groups are concentrated in New York (421 meetings), Brooklyn (254), and Queens (121), with active groups in 753 cities in total. Monday is the busiest day for meetings, and evening (5–9 PM) sessions are the most common. About 64% of groups (2,452) offer an online or hybrid option.
Meetings per day of the week across New York. Monday has the most scheduled groups.
A.A.'s own literature does most of the heavy lifting between meetings in New York. These are the books most often spotted on a member's bookshelf, with a short note on what each one is for. Each card is tagged with its language.
The book Bill W. and Dr. Bob wrote first, in 1939. Most members pick up a copy in their first week or two and keep it close.
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Bill W.'s longer essays on each Step and each Tradition. The usual companion read once the Big Book starts to feel familiar.
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A short, practical book about the day-to-day of staying sober. Often the one a sponsor suggests in the first month.
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One short A.A. reading for each day of the year, with a thought to carry into it. Members often keep a copy on the kitchen counter.
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Brief passages from A.A.'s co-founder, arranged by topic. Some groups read one aloud at the top of every meeting.
Look on AmazonNew York Intergroup coordinates several thousand weekly meetings across the five boroughs. Manhattan alone has historic groups running continuously since the 1940s, with downtown lunch meetings near the courts, Midtown groups serving office workers, an Upper West Side calendar centered on Lincoln Square and Morningside Heights, and an Upper East Side calendar concentrated around the hospitals. The East Village, Lower East Side, Chelsea, and West Village have a strong LGBTQ+ AA presence dating back decades. Brooklyn's calendar is enormous, with neighborhood-specific clusters in Park Slope, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Heights, Bay Ridge, and Bed-Stuy. Queens has a dense Spanish-language and Bengali-language meeting presence in Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, and Jamaica. The Bronx and Staten Island each have their own established meeting networks.
Suffolk County General Service and Nassau Intergroup serve Long Island, with meeting calendars across more than a hundred communities from the western Nassau border out to Montauk and Orient Point. The Hudson Valley intergroups (Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster) cover the suburbs and commuter towns north of the city, with denser calendars in White Plains, New Rochelle, Yonkers, Poughkeepsie, and Newburgh. Kingston, New Paltz, and the smaller Hudson Valley towns have a distinct meeting culture that draws weekenders and full-time residents.
Albany-Schenectady-Troy is the Capital Region hub, with Capital Region Intergroup covering Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and the surrounding counties. The Mohawk Valley (Utica, Rome, Amsterdam) has historic groups dating to the 1940s and 50s. The North Country (Plattsburgh, Watertown, Massena, Saranac Lake, Lake Placid) maintains a tight-knit meeting network across a vast geography, with online and hybrid options that make weekly attendance possible even in the smallest Adirondack communities.
Western New York Intergroup serves Buffalo and the surrounding Erie and Niagara county communities; the meeting culture reflects the city's blue-collar history with several long-running groups in the East Side, West Side, and South Buffalo neighborhoods. Rochester has its own intergroup covering Monroe County and reaching out to Geneva, Canandaigua, and the Finger Lakes towns. Syracuse anchors Central New York with meetings across Onondaga County. Binghamton, Elmira, and the Southern Tier counties round out the meeting coverage along the Pennsylvania border.
MTA subway, bus, and commuter rail (LIRR, Metro-North) cover New York City and the immediate suburbs; for many city residents, a meeting is within walking distance regardless of borough. PATH and NJ Transit connect to North Jersey. Outside the metro, intercity options include Amtrak (Empire Service, Adirondack, Lake Shore Limited, Maple Leaf), Greyhound, and a strong regional bus network.
New York splits fairly evenly between open meetings (42% of the weekly schedule) and closed ones (40%). Wheelchair access is listed for 24%, and 14% are Big Book studies. Meetings are also held in Spanish.
| Meeting type | Share of weekly meetings | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Open | 42% | Anyone may attend, including family and friends |
| Closed | 40% | For people who have a desire to stop drinking |
| Discussion | 35% | Members share on a chosen topic |
| Wheelchair access | 24% | The venue lists wheelchair access |
| Newcomer | 15% | Geared to people new to AA |
| Step study | 14% | Works through the Twelve Steps |
| Big Book | 14% | Reads and discusses the book Alcoholics Anonymous |
| Speaker | 12% | One member tells their story |
| 12 Steps & 12 Traditions | 5% | Studies the book of that name |
| Women | 4% | For women |
| Tradition study | 4% | Studies the Twelve Traditions |
| Spanish | 3% | Held in Spanish |
| Men | 2% | For men |
| Young people | 2% | Geared to younger members |
| LGBTQ+ | 2% | LGBTQ+ focused, open to all who qualify |
A meeting can carry several types, so the shares do not add up to 100%.
New York, New York's most active AA community, hosts 421 meetings. Other major cities include Brooklyn, Queens, Buffalo, and more, each running multiple meetings per week.
Yes. 42% of the weekly AA schedule in New York is open meetings, which anyone may attend, including family and friends who want to understand what someone they love is going through. In all, 8 weekly sessions run alongside an Al-Anon meeting, and 4 alongside Alateen.
Al-Anon is a separate fellowship for people affected by someone else's drinking, and Alateen is its program for teenagers. Both are free and list their own meetings, in person and online, at al-anon.org. This directory lists AA meetings only.
AA is not treatment. For detox, treatment and sober living, see what other alcohol support there is besides AA.
25 offices are listed for New York, with the contact details each one publishes.