barBar Rescue · Season 4, Episode 5 · Aired November 2, 2014
Jack's Ale House
Sunnyside, New York
Still going, now under a new name. It now goes by Jack's Fire Department.
On the show
Season 4, Episode 5 · November 2, 2014 · bar
Location is the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens, New York City.; Revisited in Back to the Bar: No Laughing Matter (S4E42, aired 2015-12-20) as Jack's Fire Department
What happened after
Renamed Jack's Fire Department after the Bar Rescue makeover. Official website live; January 2026 and July 2025 Yelp reviews confirm ongoing operation.
What happened on the show
Three loud-mouthed firefighting brothers were struggling to keep their Queens bar afloat, more concerned with who got the last word than with quality control or holding their staff accountable. At Jack's Ale House in Sunnyside, Taffer had to calm the sparks between the siblings before the constant one-upmanship finished the business, and for the recon he brought in the co-owners of the storm-rebuilt Bungalow Bar to help read the room. The rescue worked to get the brothers to stop competing with each other and start managing together, then reopened the venue as Jack's Fire Department, a firehouse-themed identity that leaned into the family's real profession. The bet was that three firefighters who could put out fires for a living might finally put out the ones they kept starting behind their own bar, given a concept built around who they actually were.
After the cameras left
Jack's Fire Department stuck and is still running. The firehouse-themed rebrand held through the show's 2015 revisit and continues to operate at 39-46 Skillman Avenue in Sunnyside, Queens, with an official website live and Yelp reviews from July 2025 and January 2026 confirming ongoing business. That puts the open call at high confidence. The brothers' bar survived their bickering and kept the rescue identity, landing this one among the clearer renamed-and-surviving cases in the catalog.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.