Landmark Tavern

626 11th Avenue | also 558 West 46th Street | Hell's Kitchen | built 1868

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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. 1866

    July 15

    Saloonkeeper James Clare stabs a patron with an ice pick

    On the night of July 15, 1866, five men arrive at James Clare's waterfront saloon demanding drinks. After Clare serves them, one hurls a stone at his head; he fights back with an ice pick, stabbing patron Thomas Comey, and both men are arrested in the aftermath.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1868

    Irish immigrant Patrick Carley opens a waterfront saloon at 46th Street

    Patrick H. Carley, an Irish immigrant, founded the tavern in 1868 at Eleventh Avenue and West 46th Street, when the spot faced the Hudson waterfront and served workers from nearby slaughterhouses, stockyards and lumberyards. It ran as a speakeasy during Prohibition, from 1919 to 1932. Its front and rear rooms still have wood-burning potbelly stoves.

    Source: Forgotten New York

  3. 1917

    Patrick Carley's saloon survives Prohibition's crackdown

    Patrick Henry Carley takes over the ground-floor bar as Carley's Saloon starting in 1917, reportedly drawing actor George Raft as a customer. Prohibition agents later shut the business down, and photographs from 1930 show its windows boarded over, before it reopens in 1933 after Prohibition's repeal.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 2005

    The saloon reopens as the upscale Landmark Tavern

    The building converts to restaurant use in 1989. After a brief closure in 2004, new owners Michael Young and Donnchadh O'Sullivan reopen it in 2005 as the Landmark Tavern, restoring the original wood paneling, mosaic floor tiles, and pressed-tin ceiling and adding an upscale menu that includes Scotch eggs and Dukka-crusted halibut.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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