Was Toots Shor, the saloon-restaurant at 51 W. 51st St., real? Or was it dreamed up as a place for Tony Curtis’s Sidney Falco to meet with Burt Lancaster’s J.J. Hunsecker in “Sweet Smell of Success”?

Bernard Shor is a beefy saloonkeeper who looks like an elderly, slightly worn cherub. He insults his best friends (“Ya crumb-bum!”) and coldly rejects sycophants (“How should I remember ya when I only ...

NEW YORK — Terence Smith already was well acquainted with the preeminent saloon in Manhattan by the time he started nudging through the revolving doors of Toots Shor’s restaurant on his own accord in ...

The Paley Center for Media's PaleyDocFest, which runs from Oct. 16-27 in New York, will kick off with Kristi Jacobson's "Toots," a documentary about the celebrated saloon keeper Toots Shor. By Staff ...

Manhattan Restaurateur Toots Shor’s motto in life has long been, “Having friends is better than having money.” As the town’s No. i host to sportsmen, writers and politicians, Shor built a reputation ...

It was 4 a.m. Time to go. Even Toots Shor had long since called it a night. Only three of us remained at that round bar in Shor’s famous New York saloon: Bill Rigney, in his first year as manager of ...

Schenectady, N.Y., had its own Toots Shor. And believe it not, it was Castleton State College’s Director of Public Safety Bob Godlewski. Shor’s legendary Manhattan restaurant was frequented by anyone ...

I first met Toots Shor in New York during the Summer of ‘62. It was the year after Maris had bested the Babe’s record of 60 homers. I was 14. Toots was a New York legend. A saloon keeper. A friend of ...

The scene: A saloon in the sky where the baseball boys of days gone by sit and scan ESPN while talking baseball. The smokey sky saloon has a big round bar and old oak tables scattered haphazardly ...