Shanley’s

Defunct

Address

Shanley's Restaurant, 207 West 43rd Street

GPS

40.7570418813, -73.987018745383

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Then the Cocoanut Grove, where Amory slept again on a little balcony outside. Out in Shanley’s, Yonkers, he became almost logical, and by a careful control of the number of high-balls he drank, grew quite lucid and garrulous. He found that the party consisted of five men, two of whom he knew slightly; he became righteous about paying his share of the expense and insisted in a loud voice on arranging everything then and there to the amusement of the tables around him....

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Shanley's Restaurant en 1910. Imagen procedente de New York Public Library.

Shanley’s Restaurant in 1910. Image from New York Public Library.

Banquete en Shanley's Restaurant en marzo de 1911. Imagen procedente de Wikipedia.

Banquet at Shanley’s Restaurant in March 1911. Image from Wikipedia.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

For decades, Shanley’s defined the elegant Manhattan restaurant: it opened its first venue in 1890 and maintained different establishments until 1925, when the last one closed. The Shanley brothers’ venues—Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States in 1888—were synonymous with distinction, especially around Times Square, before Prohibition changed the rhythm of New York nightlife.
We located it in the restaurant at 207 West 43rd Street, which closed in 1923.

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