{"id":10453,"date":"2020-05-27T20:23:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T20:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/?p=10453"},"modified":"2020-05-27T20:39:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T20:39:18","slug":"legendary-nightclub-copacabana-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/legendary-nightclub-copacabana-closes\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Nightclub Copacabana Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Legendary Manhattan nightclub The Copacabana<\/strong> is closing the doors at its Times Square location.<\/h5>\n
The Copacabana which opened in 1940 quickly became a key destination for comedy and music acts during the 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s including Sammy Davis Jr<\/strong>, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis<\/strong>, The Temptations<\/strong>, Marvin Gaye<\/strong> and The Supremes<\/strong>. The nightclub was used as a setting in the films Goodfellas,\u00a0Carlito’s Way, Tootise<\/strong> and recently Greenbook<\/strong>.<\/h5>\n
The nightclub\u2019s 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,\u00a0in the summer of 2011. This location has been the home of to several LGBT parties<\/a> including a few hosted by TENz, most recently REVOLVER<\/strong><\/a> for NYC Pride 2019.<\/h5>\n
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This announcement comes on the heels of watching other nightclubs close its doors because of The Rona including The Eagle<\/strong> in D.C and\u00a0The Stud<\/strong>, San Francisco’s oldest gay bar.<\/h5>\n
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\u201cWe\u2019re getting a new location that we\u2019re going to reopen in,\u201d 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\u2019s doors permanently are not true, she added.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s and 60\u2019s including Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye and The Supremes. The nightclub was used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1746,696],"yst_prominent_words":[2683,3825,3826,3827],"class_list":["post-10453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nightlife","tag-copacabana","tag-nightclub"],"views":1068,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tenzmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2072.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86sOI-2IB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10453"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10459,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions\/10459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10453"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}