Extract from How to Find Old New York.

A former speakeasy, “21” may not be quite the celebrity magnet is was a half-century ago, but college students still try to get in with their fake id god. We are inclined to agree with Holiday magazine’s verdict from October 1959: “Weighing the expense against the experience, a visitor to New York would be doing himself an injustice to depart without dining at least once in this most exciting of the city’s restaurants.”