How do you get into The Newsroom?

We have not confirmed it. The Newsroom 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 Newsroom

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: Jack Rose, Diamondback, and Brown Derby are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.

Where The Newsroom sits

The Newsroom is in New York, New York, in Queens County, 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 Newsroom are Record Room LIC, about 1.0 km away, Sugar East, about 1.6 km away, and yakuni, about 1.9 km 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 The Newsroom by phone on (929) 303-3172, through its own website, and on Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok.

The address is 11-01 43rd Ave, New York, NY 11101. Open in Google Maps.

What we have confirmed

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

It is in the directory because 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.

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