Terminal Bar (bar)
40°45′23″N 73°59′24″W / 40.7563°N 73.990108°W
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| Location | NE corner of 8th Avenue and 41st Street, New York City, New York, United States |
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| Owner | Murray Goldman[1] |
| Type | Bar |
| Opened | 1958 |
| Closed | 1982 |
Terminal Bar was a bar on Times Square in New York City at 41st Street and 8th Avenue. It had a reputation as one of the roughest bars in the city and was located across from the Port Authority Bus Terminal.[2][3] Terminal Bar originally had a mainly Irish American clientele, but over time evolved into a predominantly African American and gay bar.[4]
The Terminal Bar was featured in the Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver[5][6] and was the subject of an award-winning American documentary short film, Terminal Bar, directed by Stefan Nadelman[7] that used a combination of animation, live action and black-and-white photography of Terminal Bar's former patrons taken by the director's father, bartender Sheldon Nadelman, from 1972 to 1982.[8] Scorsese paid tribute again in 1985, featuring a pub called "The Terminal Bar" in his film After Hours; The Emerald Pub in SoHo stood in for the defunct Terminal Bar.[9]
A collection of Sheldon Nadelman's Terminal Bar photos was released in book form in 2014 entitled, Terminal Bar: A Photographic Record of New York's Most Notorious Watering Hole.[10][11]
The bar was also featured in the 1982 novel The Terminal Bar.[12]
The Terminal Bar closed in 1982.[1] The area where the Terminal Bar formerly stood is now occupied by The New York Times Building.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Genovese, Peter (1982-01-03). "Terminal Bar, Eighth Avenue: The End Is Near". The Home News.
- ^ Coombs, Orde (1980-12-01). "The Roughest Bar In Town". New York. Retrieved 2010-11-30.
- ^ Felson, Marcus (2006). Crime and nature. SAGE. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-7619-2910-9.
- ^ "Terminal Bar; Punch-Drunk Love". Nypress.com. 2002-10-15. Retrieved 2010-11-30.
- ^ "New York, You've Changed – Taxi Driver (Part 2)". Scoutingny.com. 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2010-11-30.
- ^ Dunlap, David W. (November 26, 2014). "A Dive Where Regulars Were Shot Regularly". The New York Times.
- ^ "25 New Faces of Indie Film 2003". Filmmaker. Retrieved 2010-11-30.
- ^ "End of the Line: Stefan Nadelman's Terminal Bar". DVD Talk. 2002-10-13. Retrieved 2010-11-30.
- ^ "After Hours film locations". 2008. Archived from the original on September 5, 2008. Retrieved 2015-05-11.
- ^ a b Teicher, Jordan G. (November 3, 2014). "A Notorious New York City Dive Bar Seen From the Bartender's Point of View". Slate.
- ^ Dunlap, David W. (November 26, 2014). "Pouring Shots and Shooting Portraits in the Old Times Square". The New York Times.
- ^ Kaplan, Rob (4 December 1982). "Life in the last days". Gay Community News. Vol. 10, no. 20. pp. 5–6.
External links
[edit]- Terminal Bar at IMDb
- 1958 establishments in New York City
- 1982 disestablishments in New York (state)
- African-American history in New York City
- Bartending
- Cultural history of New York City
- Defunct drinking establishments in Manhattan
- Irish-American culture in New York City
- Defunct LGBTQ drinking establishments in New York City
- Times Square