How do you get into The 18th Room?
We have not confirmed it. The 18th Room 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 The 18th Room
How the venue describes itself: “Grow your hospitality business with an all-in-one marketing and operations platform that has built-in guest analytics, integrations and more.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a 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.
Where The 18th Room sits
The 18th Room 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 The 18th Room are Bathtub Gin, 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:
- 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
You can reach The 18th Room through its own website and on Instagram, Facebook, and X.
The address is 134 9th Ave, New York, NY 10011. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The 18th Room we hold street address, official website, social accounts, and an online booking link. We do not yet hold telephone number, opening hours, a published drinks list, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a room rather than a bar 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.