Bathtub Gin

How do you get into Bathtub Gin?

Bathtub Gin is listed as inside another business. Walk through a working business to reach the bar.

We hold a note of which business fronts it, from map data rather than from the venue. The venue has not published that itself, so we are not naming it: the front is the one step that gets a stranger through this kind of door, and that is the venue’s to give.

No reservation system is published for this venue, which usually means walk-ins — but hours and door policy at hidden bars change often, so check before you travel.

What “inside another business” means in practice

A bar reached through a working business is the arrangement Prohibition actually produced. A shopfront that stood up to a glance from the street was the point, and the trade carried on behind it. The modern version keeps the structure and drops the risk: the front is a real business with real customers, and the door at the back is not hidden from anyone who asks. The practical consequence is that the front business’s hours can govern your access, not the bar’s.

The drinks at Bathtub Gin

How the venue describes itself: “A classic 1920’s speakeasy with craft cocktails, a full dinner menu, and live entertainment. Located in New York City.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)

The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.

Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a 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 Bathtub Gin sits

Bathtub Gin 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 Bathtub Gin are The 18th Room, a few doors away, Loulou, about 250 m away, and Back Bar, about 450 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:

Planning a visit

Hours published by the venue:

Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.

You can reach Bathtub Gin by phone on (646) 559-1671, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.

The address is 132 9th Ave, New York, NY 10011. Open in Google Maps.

What we have confirmed

For Bathtub Gin we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold an online booking link or a listed-building record.

It is in the directory because its own name refers to bathtub gin and the description in the source data describes an entrance behind another business and describes it as a speakeasy.

Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.

The source data classifies the premises as a bar.

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