STEUBEN TAVERN OPENS TOPAY
STEUIIM TAVERN OWNS TODAY Since early in July. 1933, when tage signs Were erected on t he historic property that runs from «tnd Street and Broadway to 7th Avenue on the south side of...
...The d e l s y was occasioned by t he Transit Commission and t h e Buildiag Department on account of t he doable subway entrances and e x i ts M the subway floor of the build iaga which necessitated the complete rebuilding and reconstruction it the subway entrances...
...The B.M.T...
...On the street floor will be the l a r g e s t and longest bar in New York, and also a dining room...
...Murals and lunettes,, designed and painted by Winold Re'iss, the international artist, will adorn the walls of t he three dining rooms...
...There will be an entrance to the Steuben Tavern from the subway floor, and the main street entrance wil be on 42nd Street...
...and the I.R.T., in conjunction with the Transit Commission and the Building Departasent engineers, together with the building contractor, had to work eat a method that would be in accordance with the regulations and which would not hamper the terrific traffic that flows through this spot, twenty-hours a day...
...At Fox Brooklyn Edgar Allen Foe' s "The Black Cat" with Boris "Frankenstein" Karloff and Beta "Dracula" Lugosi begins i t s Brooklyn screen engagement at t h e F o x Brooklyn today...
...Opening today, May 26, the n ew Steuben Tavern at 42nd Street and Broadway, • designed and planned by Simon B. Zelnick, built on t he s i t e where once stood the John L. Norton homestead of what was then "The Hermitage" farm, which Stretched ' from 38th Street on Broadway to 48th Street, west to the Hudson River, brings to a culmination a building deal involving $350,000 that has been in the making since July, 1933...
...It will have a seating capacity of 800 and is finished in English Tavern style, done in light brown...
...1933, when tage signs Were erected on t he historic property that runs from «tnd Street and Broadway to 7th Avenue on the south side of 42nd Street, announcing the erection of a Steuben Tavern, everybody has keen speculating as to the reason fray, at this late date, the restaurant was not opened...
...The restaurant, occupying three floors and a sub-basement, facing three streets, is said t o be the only popular priced one in the city having a scientific cooling system...
...It was not until the last week in February that all the parties concerned agreed upon the building of a new subway entrance on 7th Avenue, and the removal of the e x i s t i n g entrance on 42nd Street...
...On the level with the subway floor will be a basement dining room, bar and oyster bar...
...Just twenty-five years ago the famous old Metropole Cafe, operated by George and John Considine, a rendezvous for t h e sporting and theatrical fraternities, closed its door on that historic spot and now a quarter of a century later the corner again comes into its own with a restaurant...
...A sub-basement has been built underneath the subway network underneath 42nd Street, and this will house the refrigeration and cooling systems and will also hold the preparatory kitchens, lockers, Washrooms...
Vol. 17 • May 1934 • No. 65
