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Cotton Club on 125th Street in New York City, December 2013. An incarnation of the Cotton Club opened on 125th Street in Harlem in 1978. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] James Haskins wrote at the time, "Today, there is a new incarnation of the Cotton Club that sits on the most western end of the 125th Street under the massive Manhattanville viaduct.
The 21 Club, often simply 21, was a traditional American cuisine restaurant and former prohibition-era speakeasy, located at 21 West 52nd Street in New York City. [1] Prior to its closure in 2020, the club had been active for 90 years, and it had hosted almost every US president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt .
This is a list of notable current and former nightclubs in New York City. A 2015 survey of former nightclubs in the city identified 10 most historic ones, starting with the Cotton Club , active from 1923 to 1936.
Opened. 1978. Closed. 2007. The Roxy (sometimes Roxy NYC) was a popular nightclub located at 515 West 18th Street in New York City. Located in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, it began as a roller skating rink and roller disco in 1978, founded by Steve Bauman, Richard Newhouse and Steve Greenberg. [ 1] It was acquired in 1985 by Gene DiNino.
List of women's clubs. La Puente Valley Woman's Club. Women's Club of Coconut Grove, founded in 1891. Andover Chapter House, in 2011. General Federation of Women's Clubs Headquarters. Woman's clubs or women's clubs are examples of the woman's club movement. Many local clubs and national or regional federations were influential in history.
The Boys and Girls Club logo was designed by Saul Bass in 1978. "Club programs and services promote and enhance the development of boys and girls by instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging and influence." Boys & Girls Clubs of America ( BGCA) is a national organization of local chapters which provide voluntary after-school ...
The Girls Inc. (Girls Club of America) movement was founded in 1864 in Waterbury, Connecticut. The organization's mission was to help young women who had migrated from rural communities in search of job opportunities, experiencing upheaval in the aftermath of the Civil War. [ 3][ 4] In 1945, fourteen charter Girls Clubs joined together to form ...
Henrietta Hudson, originally named Henrietta Hudson Bar & Girl, is a queer [ 1] restaurant and lounge in Manhattan's West Village neighborhood. [ 2] It operated as a lesbian bar from 1991 to 2014. Until it rebranded in 2021, [ 3] it was one of three remaining lesbian bars in New York City. [ 4][ 5][ 6] Henrietta Hudson's location is the ...