Arthur's Tavern

57 Grove Street | West Village | built 1839

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.

1937
Arthur's Tavern opens as a neighborhood bar on Grove Street
Arthur's Tavern opens at 57 Grove Street in 1937, four years after Prohibition ends. It is meant as a neighborhood bar that anyone can walk into for a drink and live music, as the speakeasy era fades.
Source: arthurstavern.nyc
1950
Charlie Parker's regular sets earn the bar its nickname
Live music at Arthur's Tavern begins in the early 1950s and carries on for decades. Saxophonist Charlie Parker plays the room often enough that it becomes known as the Home of the Bird.
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1962
The Grove Street Stompers begin a Monday-night residency
In 1962 the Grove Street Stompers, a Dixieland jazz band, begin a Monday-night residency at Arthur's Tavern. The band is still holding the slot decades later, and the bar later adds a Sunday residency by the Creole Cookin' Jazz Band, which starts in 1986.
Source: arthurstavern.nyc
2022
April
Arthur's Tavern announces its reopening after a pandemic closure
Arthur's Tavern, open since 1937, closes in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In April 2022 Blue Note Entertainment Group announces a remodel and a reopening, with an updated bar, a new menu, and a mix of returning and new acts. The aim is to keep the club's classic character.
Source: nysmusic.com

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