How do you get into Speakeasy Charters?
We have not confirmed it. Speakeasy Charters is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, 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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building and the district
Documented — Speakeasy Charters stands inside the West Strand Historic District, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 74001314. A district listing covers a group of properties rather than a single address, so the federal record establishes the age and character of the streetscape around this venue rather than of its own walls.
National Register reference 74001314 · NPS nomination document
Where Speakeasy Charters sits
Speakeasy Charters is in Kingston, New York, in Ulster 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 Kingston. 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 Speakeasy Charters by phone on (845) 224-5529, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 1 Broadway, Kingston, NY 12401-6000. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy Charters we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.