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The bar was once owned by a Patrick J. Clarke, an Irish immigrant who was hired in the early 1900s by a Mr. Duneen who ran the saloon. After about ten years working for him Clarke bought the bar and changed the name. The building is a holdout and is surrounded by 919 Third Avenue, a 47-story skyscraper.
Notable residents include Genovese crime family boss Vincent Gigante; artist and satirist Joey Skaggs at 135 Sullivan Street, [3] politician Fiorello La Guardia, three-term Mayor of New York City, who was born at 177 Sullivan Street; [4] Vogue editrix Anna Wintour lived at 154 Sullivan; [5] composer Edgard Varèse and his wife Louise lived at ...
Rocky Sullivan's pub in Red Hook, seen from across Van Dyke Street James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). Rocky Sullivan's was a New York City Irish style pub opened in 1996 by the musician Chris Byrne (Seanchai and the Unity Squad, Black 47 and Paddy-A-Go-Go) and the journalist Patrick Farrelly (HBO's Left of the Dial, Irish Voice, Michael Moore's TV Nation). [1]
Since the 17th Century (yes, you read that right), New York City has played a major role in the country’s LGBTQIA+ history. From the Stonewall riots of 1969 to hosting the world’s largest ...
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.
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.
Thompson Street is a street in the Lower Manhattan neighborhoods of Greenwich Village and SoHo in New York City, which runs north–south, from Washington Square Park at Washington Square South (West Fourth Street) to the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) below Grand Street, where the street turns right to Sixth Avenue; it thus does not connect with Canal Street just a half block south of ...
The Duplex, also known as The Duplex Piano Bar and Cabaret, is a historical gay bar, piano bar, and cabaret theater in the Greenwich Village neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City. [1] The Duplex originally opened in 1951 on 55 Grove Street nearby in the same neighborhood, and moved to its current location at 61 Christopher Street in 1989.