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The back-alley entrance door bore a rectangular hand-painted sign reading "Syne of Ye Krazy Kat" and depicted a black cat resembling Krazy Kat being hit by a brick. [17] A chalk-inscribed message adorned the top of the door with a warning: "All soap abandon ye who enter here". [18] The club advertised its hours as "9 p.m. to 12:30". [10]
Chumley's was a historic pub and former speakeasy at 86 Bedford Street, between Grove and Barrow Streets, in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1922 by the socialist activist Leland Stanford Chumley, who converted a former blacksmith's shop near the corner of Bedford and Barrow ...
The entrance was marked by a "DANGER" sign that which pointed to the orange main door which was lit by a green light. On the door, it read: "Step High, Stoop Low and Leave Your Dignity Outside." Once inside, another sign read "Elevate Your Mind to a Lower Level of Thinking" before you entered the main part of the club.
A speakeasy, also called a beer flat [1] or blind pig or blind tiger, was an illicit establishment that sold alcoholic beverages. The term may also refer to a retro style bar that replicates aspects of historical speakeasies.
PDT, also known as Please Don't Tell, is a speakeasy-style cocktail bar in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City. The bar is often cited as the first speakeasy-style bar and thus originator of the modern speakeasy trend, [1] [2] and has influenced the American bar industry in numerous ways, [3] including beginning a sea change in New York City's cocktail culture. [2]
The 21 Club, often simply 21, was a traditional American cuisine restaurant and former prohibition-era speakeasy, located at 21 West 52nd Street in New York City. [1] Prior to its closure in 2020, the club had been active for 90 years, and it had hosted almost every US president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Look for the graffiti-covered metal door in Tribeca, then climb the narrow staircase to The Bar at Quarters and enter into a world that feels part louche downtown home, and part secret speakeasy.
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