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Keens Steakhouse

Keens Steakhouse is a chophouse on West 36th Street in Midtown Manhattan, trading since 1885, with a ceiling hung with several tens of thousands of clay pipes left by members.

Photograph of Keens Steakhouse in New York
Keens Steakhouse , 72 East 36th Street, Manhattan , New York . Leonard J. DeFrancisci · CC-BY-SA-3.0

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Included for the pipe collection, which is a physical membership record of the theatre district as it stood when Herald Square was its centre.

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