No photo of this bar survives from the 2008 site.

Cleopatra's Needle

2485 Broadway · at 92nd St.
Upper West Side, Manhattan

In 2026

Closed; now Dim Sum Sam

Last licensed here under this name: 2019–21.

Checked October 15, 2026.

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Overview

New York on Tap listed this bar without a review.

History

Thirty years of jazz, then dim sum

Cleopatra's Needle, a jazz club and restaurant on Broadway between 92nd and 93rd Streets, closed in December 2019 after 30 years¹. The goodbye read "With a Heavy Heart, We Say Goodbye," and the explanation given was "the accumulation of rent, city business assault and a change in the neighborhood"¹. The space at 2485 Broadway was then demolished, in West Side Rag's words, incredibly quickly². In September 2025 Dim Sum Sam, part of the Cantonese chain Dim Sum Palace, opened at the address³.

Sources

Researched October 2026.

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