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Gin Joints
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These are some of our favorites around town...

The Criteria: ambience, class and great cocktails. If you're into the velvet rope, trendy scene, boom boom music or frat bars, these establishments will probably not appeal to you.

Friendly Tip: call ahead to check for dress codes and whether you need reservations...oh yeah, and bring enough dough!

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Al Jolson with Carl Fenton and his Orchestra

'I'm Sitting on Top of the World'
...recorded December 21, 1925

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Hells Kitchen
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Marseille
On top of our list with a friendly accommodating staff, great clientele in this non-pretentious French bistro

Midtown East
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The Campbell Apartment
The Former luxurious office and salon of 1920's mogul John W. Campbell. This (was) is living!

Midtown West
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The Carnegie Club
Hey Big Spender...

Randolph’s Bar
We should all have friends like
William Randolph Hearst

Theatre District
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Sardi's
Past its prime, but still makes the list

Tribeca
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Brandy Library
Everything about this place is a fine vintage

Bubble Lounge
Has grown up since its adolescent trendy years

Upper Eastside
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Lexington Bars & Books
The dress code and permitted smoking keeps certain types out

The Village
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Angel's Share
Once you get past the hanging ducks upstairs in the adjacent Korean restaurant, there’s no standing room and no accommodations for large parties at this hidden gem

Five Points
Somehow we get the feeling the boys at the firehouse don't hang out here

Strip House
No, get your mind out of the gutter it's not that kind of joint

Temple Bar
Perhaps Rudy Vallee wasn’t referring to this joint in "I'll never have to dream again" (1932), with his lyrics “the dear old temple bar we love so well…”, but it works for us.

Union Square
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Blue Water Grill
Call ahead and get yourself a table at the cool jazz room downstairs

Steak Frites
If you don't get yourself a table at Blue Water Grill, pull up a stool at this long bar and enjoy a cocktail & frites

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One Way Passage

written by Robert Lord,
Wilson Mizner & Joseph Jackson
directed by Tay Garnett
Warner Bros. (1932)

One Way Passage

Kay Francis & William Powell

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The Thin Man

screenplay by Frances Goodrich
and Albert Hackett
based on novels by
Dashiell Hammett
directed by W.S. Van Dyke
MGM (1934)

The Thin Man

Myrna Loy & William Powell

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After Office Hours

screenplay by
Herman J. Mankiewicz
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
MGM (1935)

After Office Hours

Clark Gable & Constance Bennett

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Angels Over Broadway

screenplay by Ben Hecht
directed by Lee Garmes
and Ben Hecht
Columbia (1940)

Angels Over Broadway

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
&Rita Hayworth

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My Man Godfrey

screenplay by Everett Freeman, Peter Berneis & William Bowers
based on a screenplay by
Morrie Ryskind & Eric Hatch
based on Eric Hatch's novel
'110 Park Avenue'
directed by Henry Koster
Universal (1957)

My Man Godfrey

David Niven

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Pal Joey

screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley
based on fictional letters
by John O'Hara
directed by George Sidney
Columbia/Essex Sidney (1957)

Pal Joey

Frank Sinatra

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