How do you get into Todds Back Room Cigar Lounge?
We have not confirmed it. Todds Back Room Cigar Lounge is in the directory because it period concealment name, 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: Jack Rose, Diamondback, and Brown Derby are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Todds Back Room Cigar Lounge sits
Todds Back Room Cigar Lounge is in Albany, New York, in the county of the same name, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Albany — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the New York page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Todds Back Room Cigar Lounge are Speakeasy, about 150 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 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 Todds Back Room Cigar Lounge by phone on (518) 451-9871, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 40 Eagle St, Albany, NY 12207. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Todds Back Room Cigar Lounge we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name names a back room, calls it a lounge, and calls it a room rather than a bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a lounge.