2 Popular UWS Eateries Push To Add Live Music With License Change

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A pair of well-known Upper West Side restaurants are looking to add the ability to host live music.

The Gin Mill, an American bar and grill at 442 Amsterdam Avenue, and The Consulate, a high-end international restaurant at 519 Columbus Avenue, are both petitioning Community Board 7 on Sept. 21 to change their liquor licenses to allow for live music shows, according to an agenda of the board's Business and Consumer Issues Committee.

The WestSideRag was the first publication to report on the liquor licenses involved in the upcoming Community Board 7 meeting.

Here's how the official agenda describes the changes The Gin Mill and The Consulate are seeking:

"442 Amsterdam Avenue (West 81st Street.): Method of Operation Change Licensee #1027412 to the State Liquor Authority for two-year liquor licenses by 442 Amsterdam Restaurant Corp d/b/a Gin Mill. Change to include Live Music, recorded music and security personnel for the establishment.

519 Columbus Avenue (West 85th Street): Method of Operation Change Licensee #1319450 to the State Liquor Authority for two-year liquor licenses by The Consulate NYC, LLC d/b/a The Consulate. Change to include live music consisting of jazz and classical music with vocals. Live music will be on occasions during the week and/or weekend."

The Gin Mill is part of a cluster of bars from West 80th to West 84th Street on Amsterdam and Columbus, including Jake's Dilemma, Prohibition, e's Bar, Hi-Life Bar & Grill, The Dead Poet, Fred's, and more.

Prohibition, between West 84th and 85th Streets on Columbus, is the only of those joints that has historically had live music. The UWS bar is temporarily closed.