How do you get into The Woo Woo?
We have not confirmed it. The Woo Woo is in the directory because it a password you have to know, 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: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — The Woo Woo occupies the Biltmore Theater, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 04001203. The listing is a federal record maintained by the National Park Service, and the nomination document is the primary source for the building’s architectural and social history.
National Register reference 04001203 · NPS nomination document
Where The Woo Woo sits
The Woo Woo 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 Woo Woo are Lantern’s Keep, about 650 m away, Zoo Sindang NYC, about 1.0 km away, and Raines Law Room, about 1.2 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:
- 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
Hours published by the venue:
- Tuesday to Sunday, 5pm to 2am
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach The Woo Woo by phone on (646) 866-7234 and through its own website.
The address is 266 West 47th Street, New York, NY 10036. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Woo Woo we hold street address, telephone number, official website, opening hours, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold social accounts, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because the map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.