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Maxwell's Plum was a bar at 1181 First Avenue, at the intersection with 64th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. A 1988 New York Times article described it as a "flamboyant restaurant and singles bar that, more than any place of its kind, symbolized two social revolutions of the 1960s – sex and food". [1]
He concluded that a bar where single women would feel comfortable might thrive in the emerging singles culture. Most bars at the time were seedy, by today’s standards. They were dim watering ...
Little Italy (also Italian: Piccola Italia) is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, known for its former Italian population. [2] It is bounded on the west by Tribeca and Soho, on the south by Chinatown, on the east by the Bowery and Lower East Side, and on the north by Nolita.
Marie's Crisis Cafe is a piano bar and gay bar located at 59 Grove Street in the West Village of New York City. Constructed on the site of Thomas Paine's home, the location originally served as a brothel before gradually transitioning to a bar. By the early 1970s, the bar had become an established presence in the West Village for the nascent ...
Santa's Winter Wonderland At Watermark (Seaport) Located right on Pier 15 at the bottom of Manhattan is Watermark, an outdoor bar and restaurant that spans a whopping 10,000 feet.
The bar was founded near the Union Course racetrack (extant 1821–1888) and hosted many track patrons during the track's existence. [5] The establishment was owned by the Neir family from 1898 to 1967, after which it went into decline and was ready to close down in 2009, but was saved in the eleventh hour when purchased by new owners.
Weisenberg, along with partner Cameron Cohen, 23, was among 15 people enjoying a Thursday night at the board game hub — which doesn’t serve alcohol to its patrons, though it doesn’t mind if ...
The establishment became New York City's longest-operating lesbian bar after the closure of other similar venues. [11] [4] [12] [13] [14] Gay liberation icon Stormé DeLarverie was a bouncer at Henrietta Hudson well into her 80s. [6] Part of the bar's ongoing evolution included removal of the "lesbian bar" descriptor in 2014. [15]