After Bill's Gay Neti Clos, a Fight Over Its Antiqu - The New York Tim

Contents:

• BELOVED BILL'S GAY NETI IS GONE, BILL'S FOOD & DRK OPENS IN ITS PLACE
• NEW RTRANT BILL'S GAY NETI SPACE OPENS TOMORROW
• AFTER BILL’S GAY NETI CLOS, A FIGHT OVER ITS ANTIQU
• REMEMBERG BILL’S GAY NETI
• BILL’S GAY NETI PIANO MAN IS BACK THE SWG
• BILL'S GAY NETI - NEW YORK, NEW YORK
• BILL’S GAY NETI
• BILL'S GAY NETI

BELOVED BILL'S GAY NETI IS GONE, BILL'S FOOD & DRK OPENS IN ITS PLACE

Bill’s Gay Neti, the beloved former speakeasy that opened 1924 and enjoyed a long, celebrated life as a rtrant and piano bar, closed March wh much sadns all around. "The former Bill’s Gay Neti piano n be found the bar downstairs while origal moldgs appear the ma dg room, " says -owner Sean Largotta. Bill’s Gay Neti piano bar is loted a 19th century townhoe, at 57 East 54th Street.

“The Gay Neti” is an Amerin nostalgic term that refers to the of the 1890s. The send floor had a high-ceilged dg room wh walls vered wh posters and photos datg om the mid 1800’s to the famo Gay Neti. Bill's Gay Neti enjoyed a long, celebrated life as a rtrant and piano bar for more than 80 years.

The space of the former 90-year-old bar Bill's Gay Neti now has another new face. The origal Bill Gay's Neti closed 2012 after the owners uldn't renegotiate a lease and filed for bankptcy.

NEW RTRANT BILL'S GAY NETI SPACE OPENS TOMORROW

Michael Appleton for The New York TimMarch 1, 2012Wednday night was like any other at Bill’s Gay Neti Rtrant and Piano Bar on the East Si of Manhattan.

Bill’s Gay Neti, at 57 East 54th Street, which opened durg Prohibn and never shut sce, has started a fal untdown and will be closg on March 24. After Bill's Gay Neti Clos, a Fight Over Its Antiqu - The New York Tim. | After Bill’s Gay Neti Clos, a Fight Over Its Antiqu.

AFTER BILL’S GAY NETI CLOS, A FIGHT OVER ITS ANTIQU

After Bill’s Gay Neti Clos, a Fight Over Its Antiqu. Bill’s Gay Neti, a Prohibn-era piano bar and rtrant Midtown Manhattan, closed last week.

Opened as a speakeasy, Bill’s Gay Neti om the start felt like a relic om a more lorful past. The shuttered, former home of Bill’s Townhoe Rtrant — and of Bill’s Gay ’90s for many more years before that — is g back to life backed by a powerful Manhattan dg imprar, Realty Check has learned. Of Bill’s Townhoe Rtrant — and of Bill’s Gay ’90s for many more years before that — is g back to life backed by a powerful Manhattan dg RACHMAN.

Metropolan Diary: Rememberg Bill's Gay Neti - The New York Tim.

REMEMBERG BILL’S GAY NETI

Rememberg Bill’s Gay Neti.

BILL’S GAY NETI PIANO MAN IS BACK THE SWG

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The news that Bill’s Gay Neti was relotg om East 54th Street remd me of.

BILL'S GAY NETI - NEW YORK, NEW YORK

While y, there are many a gay (read: fabuloly homosexual) piano bars NYC, the “gay” of Bill’s Gay Neti refers to the origal meang of the word: happy! Bill’s Gay Neti.

" Until Michael of Go's opens up, someone suggted Bill's Gay 90s, not too far away on 54th between Park and 's a good suggtn.

BILL’S GAY NETI

Bill's Gay Neti clos on Saturday, March 24, possibly forever. Elsewhere the room are var old signs, cludg this large one for Bill's Gay 90's Revue. And as one of the rint piano men at Bill’s Food and Drk, he’s rryg on the tradn of the legendary piano bar Bill’s Gay Neti, which occupied this East 54th Street townhoe for 88 years.

BILL'S GAY NETI

Often this was at Bill’s Gay Neti, and “when closed, I was vastated, ” she says. While he’s kept workg sce Bill’s Gay Neti closed — playg private events as well as bars — he felt a void, and is “lighted” to be back each Wednday and Friday at a spot where munal song is a fol pot.

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