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After 17 years in one location (13 West 54th Street [4]), Aquavit relocated in 2005 to new premises, giving the restaurant an entirely new look. Aquavit opened a second restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1999, but it failed to take hold and ultimately closed in mid-2003.
In 1931, John Perona (born Enrione Giovanni Perona in Chiaverano in the Province of Turin, Italy), [1] an Italian immigrant, with Martín de Alzaga [2] [3] opened El Morocco as a speakeasy at 154 East 54th Street, on the south side of 54th Street in the middle of the block between Lexington Avenue and Third Avenue, where the Citigroup Center now stands.
An Italian restaurant named Toscana Ristorante opened on the 54th Street side of the building in 1987, [49] while a cafe opened on the 53rd Street side in 1999. [50] By the early 1990s, Johnson said of the building: "When you say you work in the lipstick building, people know exactly where you are." [43] The Lipstick Cafe opened in the lobby in ...
The original nine-story building at Fifth Avenue and 54th Street measures 100 by 140 feet (30 by 43 m) at ground level. [78] [129] The annex to the west of the original clubhouse is six stories high and 25 feet (7.6 m) wide on 54th Street, while it is nine stories high and 27 feet (8.2 m) wide on 55th Street. [99]
The Embers was a 1950s and 1960s-era New York City restaurant and nightclub formerly located at 161 East 54th Street between 3rd and Lexington Avenues. [1] It was opened in late 1951 by former jazz musician Ralph Watkins, [2] who had also been involved with clubs such as Bop City and Royal Roost, and featured many notable jazz acts over the years, including Marian McPartland, Dorothy Donegan ...
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The Brook is a private club located at 111 East 54th Street in Manhattan in New York City.. The exterior of the club's building in 2024. It was founded in 1903 by a group of prominent men who belonged to other New York City private clubs, such as the Knickerbocker Club and the Union Club. [1]
Jimmy Ryan's was a jazz club in New York City, USA, located at 53 West 52nd Street, Manhattan, from 1934 to 1962 and 154 West 54th Street from 1962 to 1983. [1] It was a venue for performances of Dixieland jazz. [2]