tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7471307103235274057.post4207535254181721714..comments2024-03-19T10:45:30.177-04:00Comments on Mitch Broder's Vintage New York: Old New York: Gallagher's Steak House Will Get Its Third LifeMitch Broderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13302360115689566047noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7471307103235274057.post-47486487014653098052013-01-16T05:42:44.492-05:002013-01-16T05:42:44.492-05:00A third life for this place is well on its well to...A third life for this place is well on its well to its total of 9 lives, like a cat. That being said it clearly has done better than many other NY restaurants! Thanks for the piece.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7471307103235274057.post-76296273789672726012013-01-05T14:54:02.554-05:002013-01-05T14:54:02.554-05:00There was a strange encounter here between Evelyn ...There was a strange encounter here between Evelyn Nesbit and Harry Thaw here. Evelyn Nesbit worked as a hostess here when Gallagher's was a speakeasy. In November 1927, Evelyn's former husband, Harry Thaw made an appearance at the club--twenty years after his acquittal for murder (of Nesbit's former lover, Stanford White) and long out of the asylum to which he was sentenced. The encounter surprised both of them. Thaw caused a scene in which he “violently pounded the table and swept...all the bottles and glasses to the floor.” Nesbit described it as “one of Harry’s mild tantrums.” She cites the size of the check (which, apparently, caused Thaw’s outburst), as “somewhere between $200 and $250.” I know you know this, but just in case: Nesbit had been a Follies chorus girl when Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Thaw married her in 1904. Before marrying Thaw, a 16-year old Nesbit consorted with “come up and see my etchings” Stanford White on his ‘red velvet swing’. After her marriage, Thaw grew jealous of Nesbit and shot (and killed) White at Madison Square Garden’s rooftop theater (which White had designed). In the murder trial, Thaw was acquitted by reason of insanity. Like the building at 228 West 52nd Street, Evelyn Nesbit survived. Later in life, she became a ceramics teacher in California, Evelyn Nesbit died 1967. ken sacharinnoreply@blogger.com