Palace Café (Goodman's)

206 Nassau Avenue | Greenpoint | built 1928

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 2016

    Locals call the Palace Café at 206 Nassau Avenue Goodman's on Winthrop Park

    A sign on the side awning advertised the corner bar at 206 Nassau Avenue as the Palace Café, but Greenpointers wrote in 2016 that residents never used that name. For a generation of born-and-bred Greenpointers it was always Goodman's on Winthrop Park. The piece appeared as news spread that the bar would close on Saturday, September 3.

    Source: greenpointers.com

  2. 2016

    Owner Geraldine Curtin retires, ending the Palace Café's run across from McGolrick Park

    Bedford + Bowery reported that the Palace Cafe across from McGolrick Park had officially closed on September 3, 2016, after 60 years in business. Citing DNAinfo, it said owner Geraldine Curtin, 72, decided to retire, partly because the bar's onetime Irish-American clientele had shrunk to just 10 regulars. The Tudor-style room had housed a bar since the 1920s, and the owners planned to sell both the business and the building.

    Source: bedfordandbowery.com

  3. 2018

    Three Greenpoint locals reopen the bar as The Palace, keeping its Tudor-style interior

    In late 2018 Nick Padilla, Mary Schultz and Rita Puskas opened the space as The Palace, after it had stood closed since the former owners retired. Padilla said the bar, floor and Tudor style were kept, with changes mainly to meet code and update the kitchen. Patch, citing DNAinfo, listed Flanagan's, Smitty's and Gavin's as earlier names of the bar, and Padilla said visitors told the owners about christenings held there.

    Source: patch.com

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