Commerce Street, a secret, twisting couple of blocks in the West Village, is so quiet you can hear your footsteps echo on the pavement. But the white building that has stood at the corner of Commerce and Barrow Streets for nearly a century has had anything but a quiet past. During Prohibition, it was a Read More
Last November, The Observer‘s Chris Shott reported that one of Hemingway’s favorite Greenwich Village watering holes, Chumley’s, might re-open as early as spring, less than a year after a brick wall collapsed and forced the former speakeasy to close.
The maligned landlord of Chumley’s Margaret Streiker Porres was finally ordered to pay a $200,000 Read More
Eater today takes a look inside Chumley’s—er, more specifically, the seemingly eternal construction site once known as Chumley’s.
Last month, The Observer checked in with longtime proprietor Steve Shlopak, whose optimistic forecasts for reopening the crumbled Greenwich Village watering hole keep getting pushed back.
At that time, Mr. Shlopak, who compared the place’s Read More
Nearly eight months after a brick wall collapsed, forcing famed Greenwich Village tavern Chumley’s to indefinitely lock up its notably unmarked entrance, the once illustrious literary haunt remains a mere shell of its former self.
Barely a shell, even; the old bar is beyond gutted.
“A gutted building implies that there are Read More
