The Tin Palace

You are approaching the site of the Tin Palace, which stood at the corner of the Bowery and East Second Street starting in the early nineteen seventies. Before it became a legendary jazz venue, the building was a rundown tavern, and during the excavation of the basement, the owners discovered a copy of a newspaper announcing the end of Prohibition. This discovery fueled the local legend that the site had once operated as a speakeasy managed by the mobster Meyer Lansky.