During Prohibition of 1920's baseball great Babe Ruth lived at Ansonia Hotel Broadway & W 73rd St and drank at the Dublin House speakeasy 3min away on W 79th St NYC
During Prohibition of the 1920's baseball great Babe Ruth lived at Ansonia Hotel Broadway & W 73rd St and drank at the Dublin House speakeasy, a Irish Pub owned by John P. Carway , 3min away on W 79th St near Broadway NYC. Babe Ruth spent the majority of his "bachelor" life as a New York Yankee at the Ansonia Hotel from 1919 to 1929. Bachelor in quotes because although Babe was married at the time to his first wife, Helen Woodford, he was certainly not faithful to her. Babe Ruth moved to the Ansonia with his wife when the Boston Red Sox sold his contract to the Yankees after the 1919 season, he was 24 years old, Babe stayed there till 1929 apparently on the NY Yankees tab. Babe lived hard by drinking and womanizing at the Ansonia Hotel located at 2109 Broadway and the corner of W 73rd Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan NYC for 10 years. Hard drinking baseball super star Babe Ruth hung out at speakeasy's on the Upper West Side of NY during prohibition in t...