Rose's Turn's Last Turn

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 10:42am

RIP the piano bar. Are the days numbered for Marie's Crisis too?

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New York Magazine

Intelligencer 7/17/07 5:36 PM

Now It's Rose's Turn to Cry — for $3.5 Million

Rose's Turn, the Grove Street piano bar that's been a West Village institution for seventeen years, will close Sunday after a last round of drinks and show tunes. Henry Pham, who owns the bar — his mother's name is Rose — told Daily Intel that his family sold the building for $3.5 million. (The Observer's the Real Estate blog reported the bar's imminent demise yesterday.) "It's time to move on," he said. "There just isn't much demand for this type of establishment anymore," which would come as news to anyone who's seen how packed it and its neighbors, like Marie's Crisis next door, can be on a Saturday night. Renovation begins next week, he said; rumor is it will become a real-estate office.

"This is the end of an era," said Terry White, the beloved longtime Rose's bartender who is known as Mama Rose. "Young performers dreaming of Broadway" — Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen are some of the legends who performed there early in their careers, back when it was the original site of the Duplex, since relocated around the corner — "have always come here for a chance to hone their skills." White said she was told the unexpected news last Saturday — only one week's notice after fourteen years of employment. Regulars see it as emblematic of larger changes in the West Village. "Greenwich Village is obviously turning into a greatly different place," said Casey McClellan, CEO of a Wall Street data firm and a regular. "Another place for rich people to spend their money." —Sam Gustin

Now It's Rose's Turn to Cry — for $3.5 Million

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 10:46am

How can it be packed and "forgotten" at the same time?

Sounds like he went for the $3.5 million and then blamed it on the changing times.

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 10:47am

Aw, how sad. I have such good memories of this place. About ten years ago I was in an all male Bye Bye Birdie Upstairs at Rose's Turn.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 11:04am

Ok. That is very sad. This is one of the places I'd take friends who'd visit from out of town. I suppose we'll have to go to the Duplex now. ugh.

[cooperross]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 11:06am

would be nice if they'd have spelled Terri's name right...

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 11:08am

Terri sings "Everything Must Change" every time I go in there. And she cries every time.

I bet she won't have any trouble making the whole place cry on Sunday night.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 12:12pm

*sniff* I will always have the memory of New Year's at Rose's Turn.

I know that things change, but it's so difficult to watch old landmarks go away for the sake of change, and in the process lose the personality of a neighborhood.

[robbiej]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 12:15pm

Aaaah...New Year's at Rose's Turn. Now where am I going to do a New Year's show????

And the delicious Colette Black, who booked the room. Fabulous person who gave a lot of support to performers!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 3:50pm

OOh Kringas who did you play? I want to guess Kim but you're SUCH a Hugo!!!

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 3:57pm

I was actually Nancy, one of the Sweet Apple Girls and, to my horror, I didn't even get to be a pretty girl. It was a small cast, so I was featured in several numbers.

Updated On: 7/19/07 at 03:57 PM

[robbiej]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 4:07pm

My good lord, you look like Molly Ringwald during the first season of FACTS OF LIFE!

And I LOVE it!

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 4:16pm

I had a pair of those glasses in pink as well, which matched my nightgown in "The Telephone Hour."

[robbiej]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 4:17pm

I hate myself for not having seen it.

[Jane2]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 4:27pm

I'd like to have those lavender glasses.

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 4:28pm

I think I may still have them somewhere. I bought them from a street vendor in the Village.

[Jane2]

Posted: 7/19/07 at 4:33pm

They're great!