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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.
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Here, I learned about New York City’s most successful speakeasy owner, a woman by the name of Texas Guinan who was nicknamed Queen of the Night for her power over the city’s nightlife ...
In 2007 secret underground rooms thought to have been a speakeasy were found by renovators on the grounds of the Cyber Cafe West in Binghamton, New York. [29] Speakeasies did not need to be big to operate. "It didn't take much more than a bottle and two chairs to make a speakeasy." [30] One example for a speakeasy location was the "21" Club in ...
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 ...
Frankie & Johnnie's first opened in 1926 on West 45th Street as a speakeasy during the Prohibition Era.According to urban legends, access to the original speakeasy was gained by knocking on an unmarked door and using the password "Frankie", to which the person behind the door would reply "Johnnie".
The speakeasy will be open on Fridays and Saturdays from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. and will offer several light appetizers, including calamari, bruschetta and meatballs, cocktails and champagne by the bottle.