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2024
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The Blind Tiger

Speakeasy • 1923

The Blind Tiger Speakeasy

During Prohibition, this coffee shop was The Blind Tiger, one of New York's most notorious speakeasies. Behind its unassuming facade, jazz musicians played nightly, and patrons whispered secret passwords to gain entry. The coffee shop's vintage staircase? It once led to a hidden underground bar where Zelda Fitzgerald and F. Scott Fitzgerald toasted to the Jazz Age.