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The Campbell Bar The space as John Campbell's office, c. 1926. The Campbell is a bar and cocktail lounge in Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.The space, long known as the Campbell Apartment, was once the office of American financier John W. Campbell, a member of the New York Central Railroad's board of directors.
Bemelmans Bar is a cocktail lounge and piano bar in the Carlyle Hotel, on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, New York City. The bar opened in the 1940s, serving wealthy Upper East Siders and numerous celebrities. Bemelmans has distinctive Art Deco decor, including murals of Madeline painted by Ludwig Bemelmans, author and illustrator of Madeline.
The bar has been consistently considered one of the best cocktail establishments in the U.S. In 2022, the bar was named the best in North America, according to the World's 50 Best Bars . [ 6 ] [ 1 ] This was the first year for North America's 50 Best Bars , a ranking by the same organization.
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. [1]
The Rainbow Room neon sign at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. During the 1920s, John D. Rockefeller Jr. had conceived the site of the current Rockefeller Center as a location for the Metropolitan Opera, [1] but these plans were shelved [2] and the plans eventually evolved into a mass media complex, leading to the construction of Rockefeller Center. [3]
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.
Douglas Brown, 34, and Ivana Hughes, 33, both from Charlotte, North Carolina, had a New Year's Eve party at the beginning of 2024, where they set personal goals to achieve this year.
In 1933, [2] 45 E. 18th St., the German-American Lohdens, [2] bought the bar, changing the name to the Old Town Bar, and the neon sign was erected, in 1937. [ 1 ] After the end of Prohibition and the closing of the nearby 18th Street Subway station on 8 November 1948, the bar began to fall into disrepair.