Old Town Bar and Restaurant

[1] After the end of Prohibition and the closing of the nearby 18th Street Subway station on 8 November 1948, the bar began to fall into disrepair.

Other original furnishings include large beveled mirrors, antique cash registers, wooden booths, and New York's oldest dumbwaiter that ferries food orders from the upstairs kitchen down to the bar.

[10] A creaky wooden staircase (also original) leads to an upstairs dining area, which was closed for several years before being reopened in the 1970s to cater to an unexpected increase in patrons coming to the bar on their lunch break.

[12] It also appeared in the films The Devil's Own (1997),[2] State of Grace (1990),[2] Q & A (1990), Bullets over Broadway (1994), and Madonna's 1993 "Bad Girl" video.

[11] The bar also appeared in the television shows, Sex and the City, Mad About You, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and in the opening montage[2] of Late Night with David Letterman from 1987 to 1992.