How do you get into Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Speakeasy is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at Speakeasy
How the venue describes itself: “Speakeasy 518 – Albany” (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: Sazerac, Ward Eight, and Scofflaw are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Speakeasy sits
Speakeasy is in Albany, New York, in the county of the same name, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Albany — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the New York page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Speakeasy are Todds Back Room Cigar Lounge, about 150 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 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 Speakeasy by phone on (518) 449-2332 and through its own website.
The address is 42 Howard St, Albany, NY 12207. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold social accounts, opening hours, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy and the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.