Legendary Nightclub Copacabana Closes

Legendary Manhattan nightclub The Copacabana is closing the doors at its Times Square location.

The Copacabana which opened in 1940 quickly became a key destination for comedy and music acts during the 50’s and 60’s including Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye and The Supremes. The nightclub was used as a setting in the films Goodfellas, Carlito’s Way, Tootise and recently Greenbook.

The nightclub’s original location was on East 60th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, and has changed venues four times since. It opened in its current location, at the corner of Eighth Avenue and West 47th Street, in the summer of 2011. This location has been the home of to several LGBT parties including a few hosted by TENz, most recently REVOLVER for NYC Pride 2019.

This announcement comes on the heels of watching other nightclubs close its doors because of The Rona including The Eagle in D.C and The Stud, San Francisco’s oldest gay bar.

Update:

“We’re getting a new location that we’re going to reopen in,” a staffer who answered the phone at the nightclub told the Daily News Tuesday. She kept the address of the new hangout under wraps. The move has nothing to do with the coronavirus pandemic and reports that the nightclub is shutting it’s doors permanently are not true, she added.