Bill's Gay Nineties

57 E. 54th St. · btwn Madison & Park Ave
Midtown East, Manhattan

In 2026

Closed; now Bill's Supper Club

Last licensed here under this name: 2014–22.

Checked October 15, 2026.

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Overview

New York on Tap listed this bar without a review.

History

Eighty-eight years of piano, then the lease

Bill's Gay Nineties Restaurant and Piano Bar first opened during Prohibition and lasted 88 years¹. It filled three floors of a townhouse dating to the 1850s¹. A bar named for the Gay Nineties stayed open long enough to become an antique itself.

The end came over the lease, which the owners couldn't renegotiate, and they filed for bankruptcy^{1, 2}. Bill's shut down for good at three in the morning on a Sunday in March 2012¹.

The name outlived the bar. The address now belongs to the renamed Bill's Supper Club, and its own site announces that it has re-opened³.

Sources

Researched October 2026.

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