How do you get into The Roosevelt?
We have not confirmed it. The Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt
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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Roosevelt sits
The Roosevelt is in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in Bergen County, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in East Rutherford. If you know another, tell us.
New Jersey holds 23 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our New Jersey speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in New Jersey
New Jersey 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 Jersey.
What the newspapers recorded in New Jersey
Searching the Library of Congress run of New Jersey newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from New Jersey:
- The Lambertville record, April 16, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Perth Amboy evening news, February 28, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Perth Amboy evening news, March 29, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Perth Amboy evening news, November 7, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Roosevelt by phone on (201) 713-3145, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 356 Paterson Ave, East Rutherford, NJ 07073. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Roosevelt we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, a published drinks list, and an online booking link. We do not yet hold opening hours or 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.