About Us

When Kingston’s beloved beer, burger, and live music joint The Anchor closed its doors in 2022, regulars hoped the space would be reclaimed as a new laid-back watering hole. Longtime friends and business partners Rebecca Kush and Tiffany Themens dove in at the opportunity and, after a lighthanded reno, recently opened Night Swim Kingston, which they describe as the welcoming neighborhood bar that the building was calling for.

Kush, a pandemic-era Brooklyn expat, purchased a home in Kingston’s Rondout neighborhood in 2021 and immediately saw potential to bring new life to the Midtown bar when it went up for sale. She and Themens had been running a Williamsburg spot Crystal Lake Brooklyn for the past seven years.“When my husband and I were thinking about leaving the city, a real estate friend suggested Kingston. She told me, ‘I know you’ve got Crystal Lake, but this is a great community,’ and she was right,” Kush says. “We ended up buying our house here, and I told Tiffany, ‘You need to see this community, come hang out with us up here. If we’re thinking about opening a second bar, we should do it here.’” And the BEST decision was made.