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Best Answer: Yes. In fact, NY has changed the state law, and you can now buy beer before noon seven days a week. You can purchase any alcoholic beverages after 8 am on the weekdays. Bars usually open at that time too. You can buy anything (and I mean anything) at anytime in New York City.
Not sure where and when you were in NY, but these days we have some pretty lax alcohol laws. We can buy beer of any ABV pretty much anywhere, including gas stations, grocery stores, convenience stores, drug stores... but weirdly not liquor stores.