Created by NYHistory Updated On: Temmuz 24, 2012
Since the earliest days of Dutch settlement, New York's taverns and bars have served as gathering places, centers of social and business activity, and sometimes even sites of history themselves.
45 E 18th St (btwn Broadway & Park Ave S), New York, NY
Bar · Flatiron District · 182 tavsiye ve inceleme
NYHistory: Founded in 1892, The Old Town Bar was run as a speak-easy by Tammany Hall during Prohibition. It is also home to New York's oldest active dumbwaiters!
15 E 7th St (btwn Cooper Sq & 3rd Ave), New York, NY
Pub · East Village · 467 tavsiye ve inceleme
NYHistory: It is said that Abraham Lincoln visited this bar with Peter Cooper after his Cooper Union Address. Operating for over 150 years, this "men only" club opened its doors to women in 1970.
NYHistory: The site of the 1969 Stonewall riots, this Greenwich Village bar became the birthplace of the modern Gay Rights Movement and is a National Historic Landmark.
Tarih Müzesi · Financial District · 29 tavsiye ve inceleme
NYHistory: Established in 1719, Fraunces Tavern was the site of initial meetings of the Chamber of Commerce and Sons of Liberty in 1768. It is also where George Washington bade farewell to his officers in 1783.
326 Spring St (btwn Greenwich & West), New York, NY
Pub · Hudson Square · 150 tavsiye ve inceleme
NYHistory: The Ear Inn, originally built for the African American Revolutionary War veteran and tobacconist James Brown, is one of the few Federal style buildings remaining in New York.
Amerikan Restoranı · Midtown East · 129 tavsiye ve inceleme
NYHistory: In June of 1932, "21" Club was raided by federal Prohibition agents in search of liquor. Agents failed to find the two thousand cases of wine hidden in 21 Club's secret wine cellar vault...
288 Malcolm X Blvd (btwn 124th & 125th St), New York, NY
Lounge · Central Harlem · 26 tavsiye ve inceleme
NYHistory: The Lenox Lounge was established in 1939 during the midst of the Harlem Renaissance and hosted a range of talents from Frank Sinatra to James Baldwin.
Amerikan Restoranı · Financial District · 37 tavsiye ve inceleme
NYHistory: The Bridge Café building was constructed in 1794 along downtown’s East River. During Prohibition, Bridge Café sold “cider,” although bootleg beer was secretly available.
NYHistory: This designated landmark, built in 1880, was a speak-easy throughout Prohibition and a seaman's bar until the late 1940s. During the 1950s, it became a popular meeting place for artists and writers.
NYHistory: Landmark Tavern opened in 1868 under the ownership of Patrick Henry Carley. At this time, the bar doubled as a pub and as Carley's family home until it was converted to a speakeasy during Prohibition.
NYHistory: Named after the Irish emigrant, Patrick J. Clarke, P.J. Clarke's was established in 1884. Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, and the Kennedys were all said to be regulars at this bar.