Dorrian's Red Hand
1616 2nd Avenue | also 300 East 84th Street | Yorkville | built 1920
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1986
Patrons tell police they saw Jennifer Levin leave the bar with Robert Chambers
Jennifer Levin, 18, and Robert Chambers had both been at Dorrian's Red Hand on the day she died. After her body was found in Central Park on August 26, 1986, several of the bar's patrons told police they had last seen her leave with Chambers, and officers went to his home. Asked at the precinct whether he had left the bar with her, Chambers denied it, then admitted it when police said patrons had seen them go. He later pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
“After several of Dorrian's patrons told police that they had last seen Levin leaving the bar with Chambers, police went to his home.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1987
The State Liquor Authority suspends Dorrian's license for serving minors
On November 24, 1987, the State Liquor Authority's commissioners voted unanimously for a 10-day suspension of the bar's liquor license and a $1,000 fine for its owner, over serving two people under 21 in November 1986. Police had issued summonses to four employees after visits on November 14 and 15 that year. Jack Dorrian denied the charge and suggested he was being persecuted because he had used his $650,000 townhouse to secure Chambers's $150,000 bail.
Source: Internet Archive
- 2015
Town & Country says the bar, a preppy institution, draws Yankees players and celebrities
A Town & Country piece in April 2015 called Dorrian's a preppy institution, pointing to red-and-white checkered tablecloths and to regulars such as Yankees players and Blues Traveler's John Popper. It said the bar's name refers to the red hand that appears on Northern Ireland's flag, per New York magazine, and quoted owner Jack Dorrian, via the New York Observer, on a dress code that stops short of tank tops. The piece began with a Page Six report that Gwyneth Paltrow had been spotted drinking Coors Light there.
Source: Internet Archive
Further reading
- Dorrian's Red Hand RestaurantWikipedia
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