Light Horse Tavern

Light Horse Tavern is a restaurant located in Jersey City, New Jersey. Restored from an 1850s tavern, the building served as a speakeasy during Prohibition in the United States.

Photo: Walter Burns, CC BY 2.0.

Type: Restaurant
Cuisine: American
Description: restaurant in Jersey City, New Jersey
Address: 199 Washington St., 07302

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Museum of Russian Art and Essex Street station.

Museum of Russian Art

Museum

Photo: Hudconja, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Museum of Russian Art is a museum in Jersey City, New Jersey. It is dedicated to exhibiting Russian art, particularly Soviet Nonconformist Art. It was established in 1980 as CASE Museum of Contemporary Russian Art The museum's historic brownstone building in Paulus Hook underwent renovation and re-opened in 2010. Museum of Russian Art is situated 610 feet northeast of Light Horse Tavern.

Essex Street station

Railway station

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.

Essex Street station is a station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail located between Hudson and Greene Streets in Jersey City, New Jersey. There are two tracks and two side platforms. Essex Street station is situated 730 feet southeast of Light Horse Tavern.

Ellis Island

Islet

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Ellis Island is an island in New York Harbor, within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. Owned by the U.S. government, Ellis Island was once the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jersey City and Newport.

Jersey City

Photo: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Jersey City is New Jersey's second-largest city. Jersey City sits in Hudson County in the northeastern section of the state, across the Hudson from its older and bigger cousin, New York City, and south of Hoboken.

Newport

Neighborhood

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Newport is a 600-acre master-planned, mixed-use community in Downtown Jersey City, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, consisting of retail, residential, office, and entertainment facilities.

Battery Park City

Neighborhood

Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Battery Park City is a neighborhood and planned community at the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City. The neighborhood is situated along the Hudson River waterfront, and separated the Financial District and Tribeca by the West Side Highway.

Light Horse Tavern

Category: food
Location: City of Jersey City, Hudson County, Gateway, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.71398° or 40° 42′ 50″ north

Longitude

-74.03814° or 74° 2′ 17″ west

Elevation

33 feet (10 metres)

Open location code

87G7PX76+HP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1672049578

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=restaurant

OpenStreetMap attribute

cuisine=american

GeoNames ID

7288954

Wikidata ID

Q6546019

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In Other Languages

“Light Horse Tavern” goes by many names.

Irish: “Light Horse Tavern”

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