Episode 104: Neirs Tavern

As part of Fraunces Tavern Museum’s Tavern Week celebration, Mary Tsaltas-Ottomanelli and Allie Delyanis sit down with Loycent Gordon and Edward Wendell from Neirs Tavern and discuss each building’s storied history.

About Neirs Tavern

Among the oldest and most historic bars in the country, Neir’s Tavern is located in the Woodhaven area of Queens in New York City, near the Brooklyn border. Over 190 years old, it is one of the few old drinking establishments that have been in almost continuous operation (Prohibition notwithstanding) and in the same location, for its entire history. Neir’s is known as the tavern where as a child, Mae West used to dance (and possibly first performed) in the ballroom, which featured a wooden balcony with small hotel rooms around the upper walls, similar to the Wild West dancehalls of the movies and television.

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