Editorial Review
Currently closed for renovations, expected to reopen in 2013.
One of the few New York bars that can honestly claim it used to be a speakeasy—and not just in the same building as one, under a different name, this bar has been around since 1926, right up until a chimney collapse shuttered it in 2012. It has been under renovations ever since, and while it's safe to assume the 80-plus years of wear and tear won't quite make it to the other side, the ghost of Chumley's, like those of its most famous customers, like Faulkner, O'Neill, and Steinbeck, will continue to haunt the place.
