Episode 24 of The Bowery Boys. Welcome to the Copa Cabana.

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Hello and welcome once again to The Bowery Boys.

I'm Greg Young. Tom is away on business this week, so we're having a mini show

and focusing on one of Manhattan's swankiest and most notorious nightclubs,

The Copa Cabana, or just The Copa for short, as they like to say,

the hottest club north, way north of Havana.

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Every Friday, we have a feature called Friday Night Fever, where each week we focus

on one particular tavern, saloon, speakeasy, bar, or nightclub in New York history.

A couple of people have asked why we devote so much space to one particular element

of New York history.

When we, of course, have so many conventional New York history, people, places, and things

to cover, the reason is the history of New York nightlife parallels and sometimes contradicts

what's going on in the mainstream, like political or cultural history of the city.

It also reinforces something rather vividly, the lifestyle of being a New Yorker in a particular

area.

For instance, one is generally considered like one of the first taverns in Manhattan

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