Investor Update · April 2026
A bar built from stories. A menu made of time.
Since December 2008, 67 Orange Street defined Harlem's cocktail renaissance. The next chapter is almost ready to open its doors.
Why Almack's
A Time-Traveler's Speakeasy
In 1765 London, William Almack opened grand assembly rooms — the axis of Regency high society, entry controlled by Lady Patronesses who denied the wrong bow, the wrong garment, the wrong guest.
"By invoking that name, Williams made a declaration: this is prestige — but defined on our own terms."
In 1840s Five Points, a free Black man named Pete Williams borrowed that name and turned it inside out. His Almack's Dance Hall at 67 Orange Street welcomed Irish jiggers and African American shuffle-dancers alike. From that collision, tap dance was born.
The narrative arc
Our cocktail menu unfolds as a time-travel story. Pete Williams builds Almack's from forbidden love and exile. Master Juba — William Henry Lane — arrives and invents tap dance on Pete's floorboards. A fire drives them through time into Harlem 1926, where rent parties, speakeasies, and jazz royalty await. A mysterious stranger appears in the smoke. Together, they dream up the permanent version of Almack's.
"The loop closes: you are standing in the place they built."
Each of the seven cocktails is a chapter. The menu is a book. The stranger's name is Karl Franz Williams.
What 67 Orange Street built
For nearly 16 years, 67 Orange Street ranked among New York City's top cocktail destinations — featured in Esquire's Top 27 Bars in America, World's 50 Best Discovery, and Condé Nast Traveler's 26 Best Bars in NYC. It survived the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. It created a community, not just a bar.
Almack's of 67 Orange Street is the evolution — a larger space, a richer story, and the infrastructure to sustain it for the next 16 years.
Building the buzz — PR runway
Rachel Harrison Communications — specialists in hospitality and craft cocktail bars — officially launched our 8-week pre-opening campaign on May 1. The timeline below shows how coverage builds toward the June 9 soft open and June 23 public opening.