Lenox Lounge

The bar was founded in 1939 by Ralph Greco and served as a venue for performances by many great jazz artists, including Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane.

Harlem Renaissance writers James Baldwin and Langston Hughes were both patrons,[1] as was Malcolm X.

Alvin Reid, Sr. purchased it in 1988 and restored the original Art Deco interior from September 1999 to March 2000, during the only closure in the bar's history.

[3] The Lenox Lounge was voted "Best of the Best" by the 2002 Zagat Survey Nightlife Guide and by the 2001 New York Magazine.

The Zebra Room was used for a key scene in the Mad Men pilot, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes".