Documentary About Iconic Wash Heights Bar Nominated For Emmy Award

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — The story of a Washington Heights bar and its endless cast of characters is officially nominated for a New York Emmy Award.

"Coogan's Way", which tells the history of how the bar came to find a home in Upper Manhattan and became a beacon of community, debuted at the 2021 Harlem International Film Festival last May.

The documentary tells Coogan's story through interviews with the myriad of characters that made the bar such an institution over the decades.

Owners Dave Hunt, Tess O'Connor McDade, and Peter Walsh provide their retelling of the bar's history along with Charlie Rangel, Rep. Adriano Espaillat, Lin Manuel Miranda, his father Luis Miranda, the late New York Times reporter and Coogan's regular Jim Dwyer, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, local youth coach Dave Crenshaw, writer Led Black, former employees, and many more.

The film, directed by Glenn Osten Anderson, is now nominated for a New York Emmy Award in the Documentary Topical.

Nominees:

• "Women And The Vote"
• "SPD: Reckoning & Reform"
• "Ghost Light: Broadway's Long Intermission"
• "Coogan's Way"
• "New York Live: Home for The Holidays"
• "Nueva York: Mayo"

Here's a trailer for the documentary.

The iconic Washington Heights bar and restaurant closed its doors at West 169th Street and Broadway last April after serving customers in the community for over 35 years.

Even after its closure, owners of the storied bar have found ways to continue supporting the Upper Manhattan neighborhood.

The shuttered watering hole partnered with Facebook on a small-business drive, donated over $100,000 to businesses in Harlem, Inwood, and Washington Heights, and provided Christmas lights for community trees last holiday season.

The documentary also details how the neighborhood rallied around the bar in 2005 to fight off impending closure.

The date for the 65th Annual New York Emmy Awards is not yet announced.

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