How do you get into Vol de Nuit?
We have not confirmed it. Vol de Nuit is in the directory because it described as hidden, 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: Jack Rose, Diamondback, and Brown Derby are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Vol de Nuit occupies the West 4th Street Subway Station (IND), a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 05000223. The listing is a federal record maintained by the National Park Service, and the nomination document is the primary source for the building’s architectural and social history.
National Register reference 05000223 · NPS nomination document
Where Vol de Nuit sits
Vol de Nuit is in New York, New York, in the county of the same name, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists 66 speakeasies and hidden bars in New York. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in New York.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Vol de Nuit are Blind Tiger, about 250 m away, The Garret, about 300 m away, and Analogue, about 300 m away.
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 daily worker, December 15, 1931 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The daily worker, July 14, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The daily worker, August 5, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The daily worker, October 16, 1930 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Monday to Wednesday, Su 16:00 to midnight
- Thursday, 4pm to 1am
- Friday, Sa 16:00 to 3am
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Vol de Nuit by phone on (212) 982-3388, through its own website, and on X.
The address is 148 West 4th Street, New York, NY. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Vol de Nuit we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold a published drinks list or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because the description in the source data describes it as hidden.
OpenStreetMap carries this venue, contributed by a mapper; Overture Maps has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.