How do you get into Blind Pig?
We have not confirmed it. Blind Pig is in the directory because it blind pig or blind tiger, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Bee’s Knees, Southside, and Last Word are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Blind Pig sits
Blind Pig is in Poughkeepsie, New York, in Dutchess County, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States. The city sits inside the Hudson Valley metropolitan area.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Poughkeepsie. If you know another, tell us.
New York holds 101 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our New York speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in New York
New York came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in New York.
What the newspapers recorded in New York
Searching the Library of Congress run of New York newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from New York:
- The evening world, September 16, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The New York herald, January 9, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The New York herald, December 19, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The New York herald, January 16, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Blind Pig on Facebook.
The address is 15 Kingston Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603-3401. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Blind Pig we hold street address and social accounts. We do not yet hold telephone number, official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name uses blind pig or blind tiger, the Prohibition terms.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.