Copacabana is a famous New York City nightclub. Many entertainers, among them Danny Thomas and the comedy team of Martin and Lewis, made their debuts here. The 1978 Barry Manilow song "Copacabana" is named for and about the nightclub, and part of the 2003 Yerba Buena (band) song "Guajira" is set there. Image File history File links CopacabanaLogo. ... Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Clubbing, also known as a disco A nightclub (often shortened to club) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... Danny Thomas (January 6, 1914 – February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor of Lebanese Maronite descent. ... Martin and Lewis were an American comedy duo, comprised of singer Dean Martin (as the straight man) and comedian Jerry Lewis (as his stooge). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus in Brooklyn, New York on June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter best known for his hit recordings I Write The Songs, Mandy and Copacabana (At The Copa). Manilow dominated the charts for much of the 1970s with a string of major... Copacabana is a 1978 disco song by Barry Manilow. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A promotional image of the band Yerba Buena is a Grammy-nominated fussion band based out of New York. ...

The nightclub was the setting for the last-ever performance of Martin and Lewis, on July 25, 1956. Martin and Lewis were an American comedy duo, comprised of singer Dean Martin (as the straight man) and comedian Jerry Lewis (as his stooge). ... July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

This nightclub achieved a degree of notoriety due to a May 16, 1957 incident involving members of the New York Yankees. One evening, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Hank Bauer, Yogi Berra, Johnny Kucks and Billy Martin of the Yankees, along with the wives of the former five arrived at the nightclub to celebrate Martin's birthday. Sammy Davis, Jr. happened to be the headliner. During the performance, a group of bowlers, apparently intoxicated, starting to interfere with Davis' act, even hurling racial slurs at him. This behavior incensed the Yankees, especially Martin, since his club roommate was catcher Elston Howard, the first African-American to join the Yankees. Tensions erupted between the two factions, and the resulting fracas made newspaper headlines. Several of the Yankees were fined. One of the bowlers sued Bauer for aggravated assault, but Bauer was found not guilty. 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Major league affiliations American League (1901–present) East Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,15,16,23,32,37,44,49 Name New York Yankees (1913–present) New York Highlanders (1903-1912) Baltimore Orioles (1901-1902) (Also referred to as Americans... Mickey Mantle on a 1953 cover of Time Magazine. ... Edward Charles Whitey Ford (born October 21, 1928) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. ... Henry Albert Hank Bauer (born July 31, 1922 in East St. ... Yogi Berra on his 80th birthday Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra (born May 12, 1925) is a former catcher and manager in Major League Baseball who played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. ... John Charles Kucks (born July 27, 1933) was a pitcher for the New York Yankees and Kansas City Athletics in Major League Baseball. ... Alfred Manuel Billy Martin, (May 16, 1928 – December 25, 1989), a former Major League Baseball player and manager, was manager of the New York Yankees five different times and won two league championships and one World Series as their manager. ... Sammy Davis, Jr. ... A headliner is the fabric covering of the interior of an automobiles roof. ... Infirmary of a rock festival Drunkenness, in its most common usage, is the state of being intoxicated with ethyl alcohol to a sufficient degree to impair mental and motor functioning. ... The following is a list of ethnic slurs that are, or have been, used to refer to members of a given ethnicity in a derogatory or pejorative manner in the English speaking world. ... The position of the catcher Catcher is also a general term for a fielder who catches the ball in cricket. ... Elston Gene Howard (February 23, 1929-December 14, 1980) was a Major League Baseball player. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... Aggravated assault is a form of violent crime. ... In criminal law, an acquittal is the legal result of a verdict of not guilty, or some similar end of the proceeding that terminates it with prejudice without a verdict of guilty being entered against the accused. ...

The Copacabana club is located on 34th Street and 11th Avenue on the west side of Manhattan, but its former location was 10 East 60th. The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ...

External links

• CopacabanaNY.com
• New York City's Copacabana review from 1949
• Copacabana Event Space Profile