Posted on 12/12/2020 3:43:18 PM PST by simpson96
New York City's famed 21 Club restaurant will be "indefinitely ceasing operations," a restaurant union president told CNN.
Bill Granfield, president of the Unite Here Local 100 labor union, says he received a letter on December 9 stating the restaurant is closing and all employees will be permanently terminated on March 9, 2021. The union represents 120 of the restaurant's approximately 140 workers, according to Granfield.
The 21 Club closed on March 16 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and has not reopened. Granfield says he believes the restaurant will return in some capacity in the future.
The restaurant first opened its doors on January 1, 1930 and became one of Manhattan's "most famous speakeasies of the Prohibition Era," according to its website.
From its perch on West 52nd street, 21 Club became a place to see and be seen for entertainers, business leaders and politicians.
The restaurant is easy to spot thanks to its collection of ornamental jockeys lining the balcony above its entrance. The first jockey was donated in the 1930s and more were added over the years thanks to donations from storied New York families like the Vanderbilts and Mellons, according to the 21 Club website.
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Another covid-19 fatality?
They sure did corner the market on Lawn Jockeys. Must be a story behind them.
Ah, a labor union representing employees of the restaurant. So, $100 a plate?
First, Tavern on the Green shut down. Now 21.
NYC is dead. It’s official.
Dark blue city & state. Just don’t care anymore.
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
To tell the world about
The way the lights went out
And keep the memory alive
-Billy Joel
I’ll go with the chicken fried steak on the value menu.
I was born in Queens and never heard of this place.
Trumps birthplace, lot’s a red here, in the weeds.
Not over yet.
Doesn’t look good though.
Places like Bad Daddy’s is about as high end as I care to go.
When did they paint them all? When I was a kid in the ‘60s and early ‘70s in Connecticut, all the lawn jockeys were black. They also tended to be shorter. Those same people sometimes had a pedestal with a mirror ball in the middle of their yard/garden.
I’m surprised at your comment.
The Don rocks it:
One of my favorite New York spots for lunch with my grandpa.
They should give Cuomo another award
I once ran into Laurie Dhue (formerly of Fox News) while she was lunching there.
Maybe it is like Mindy’s on Seinfeld. You can get the soup and crumple some crackers and it can be called a meal.
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