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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]
Writer George T. Simon, while working on a compilation of music for The Big Band Songbook, contacted composer Will Hudson regarding "Moonglow", and Hudson explained how the tune came about. "It happened very simply. Back in the early '30s, I had a band at the Graystone Ballroom in Detroit, and I needed a theme song. So I wrote 'Moonglow'."
This is a list of notable current and former nightclubs in New York City. A 2015 survey of former nightclubs in the city identified 10 most historic ones, starting with the Cotton Club , active from 1923 to 1936.
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 ...
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.
Rockefeller Apartments, a New York City landmark; Residences at 5–15 West 54th Street, a series of townhouses built in the late 1890s. All of these are New York City designated landmarks and collectively form a National Register of Historic Places district. [11] 13 and 15 West 54th Street occupied by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Nelson Rockefeller
Eddie Condon, Tony Parenti, Wild Bill Davison, Brad Gowans, Jack Lesberg, and Freddie Ohms at Eddie Condon's of New York City in June 1946 Eddie Condon's was the name of three successive jazz venues in New York run by jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader Eddie Condon from 1945 until the mid-1980s. [1]
Studio 54 is a Broadway theater and former nightclub at 254 West 54th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.Opened as the Gallo Opera House in 1927, it served as a CBS broadcast studio in the mid-20th century.