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The Ear Inn at\u00a0326 Spring Street, NY (btw. Greenwich and Washington) claims to be the oldest working bar in NYC and\u00a0\u00a0is a designated\u00a0Landmark of the City of New York.<\/p>\n
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Since the end of Prohibition, the Ear Inn had no name, but in 1977 the new resident-owners decided to avoid any lengthy reviews by the Landmark Commission over a new sign by simply painting out part of the existing neon BAR sign.<\/p>\n
By that deft move, the bar was renamed the Ear Inn which was handy because the musical Ear Magazine was published upstairs too!<\/p>\n
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The house dates back to 1817, but only became a bar in the 1890s, when an Irishman named Tom Cloke bought the property and turned it into a rough’n’ready drinking house.<\/p>\n
One of the last\u00a0Federal houses<\/a> left in New York City, the Ear Inn retains many original features including wooden\u00a0beams, dormers, double splayed keystone lintels and a gambrel roof.<\/p>\n Enjoying a drink inside. My mate Jim has cunningly managed to avoid the lens.<\/p>\n Rather unexpectedly, I came across an old British Railways ‘totem’ style station sign for Nunhead station in the bar (above the Gents loo, to be precise).<\/p>\n Note for visitors: Nunhead is situated in south London, is famous for its\u00a0cemetery<\/a>, \u00a0and it was once possible to get a train direct from Brixton<\/a> en route to Crystal Palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n Discuss the bar on our bulletin boards<\/a><\/p>\n [More New York photos<\/a>] – [Ear Inn website<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ear Inn at\u00a0326 Spring Street, NY (btw. Greenwich and Washington) claims to be the oldest working bar in NYC and\u00a0\u00a0is a designated\u00a0Landmark of the City of New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[196,56,17,193,90],"tags":[201,1199,385,36],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nightlife","category-new-york","category-photos","category-places","category-railways","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-nyc","tag-pubs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ear-bar-new-york-city-05.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Ve","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3550,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ear-bar-new-york-city-03.jpg\")
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