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Speakeasies in New York, NY

15 rooms worth the walk, from hidden door, hotel bar, jazz room, prohibition original, tiki lounge.

4.7

Attaboy

Lower East Side · New York, NY

No menu, no sign, no promises. Tell them what you like and watch a shaker do the rest, in the old Milk & Honey room.

Hidden Door

4.6

Bemelmans Bar

Upper East Side · New York, NY

Ludwig Bemelmans' Central Park murals, gold-leaf ceilings, a piano after five, and the most civilized martini north of 59th Street.

Hotel Bar

4.6

Please Don't Tell

East Village · New York, NY

The bar that restarted American speakeasy culture: a phone booth inside a hot dog joint, a wooden door that swings open, and a room that has never needed a sign.

Hidden Door

4.5

The Django

Tribeca · New York, NY

A brick-vaulted cellar under a Tribeca hotel where the trio starts late and the room leans in.

Jazz Room

4.4

The Back Room

Lower East Side · New York, NY

One of two New York rooms still serving where it served during Prohibition — cocktails in teacups, beer in paper bags, and a bookcase door out back.

Prohibition Original

4.7

Sunken Harbor Club

Gowanus · New York, NY

Ship lanterns, rum flights and brass portholes in an upstairs room that feels like a smuggler's cabin two blocks from the canal.

Tiki Lounge

4.6

Angel's Share

East Village · New York, NY

Rules on the wall, silence in the room, and the most precise stirring in Manhattan — through a restaurant door most people walk past.

Hidden Door

4.6

Birdland

Theater District · New York, NY

The jazz corner of the world, reopened and still running two sets a night with a bar rail worth claiming.

Jazz Room

4.6

Little Branch

West Village · New York, NY

A basement corner room with live jazz trios and drinks that arrive without ceremony but never without care.

Hidden Door

4.5

Death & Co

East Village · New York, NY

A black-walled East Village room that turned the cocktail menu into literature. Everyone sits; nobody shouts.

Hidden Door

4.5

Employees Only

West Village · New York, NY

A psychic's storefront hides a white-jacketed West Village institution where the last call is later than your judgment.

Hidden Door

4.5

King Cole Bar

Midtown · New York, NY

Maxfield Parrish's mural presides over the room that invented the Bloody Mary's better-dressed cousin.

Hotel Bar

4.5

Mother of Pearl

East Village · New York, NY

Pastel Polynesia in the East Village: pandan, rum and vessels shaped like things that swim.

Tiki Lounge

4.5

The Ear Inn

Hudson Square · New York, NY

A Federal-era house that has poured through every era of the city, including the ones where pouring was illegal.

Prohibition Original

4.4

The Campbell

Midtown East · New York, NY

A 1920s railroad executive's private office — leaded glass, hand-painted beams — hidden inside Grand Central Terminal.

Hotel Bar