Inside Pete Davidson’s new NYC bar with a ‘secret entrance’ from Rock Center
nypost.cominvestment into a Staten Island Ferry with fellow “Saturday Night Live” cast member Colin Jost, Pete Davidson is now also dipping his hands into New York’s bar scene.
Davidson, 28, joins a long list of celebrity investors behind the 19th century townhouse-turned-bar, including music producer Mark Ronson and actors Nicholas Braun, Justin Theroux and Jason Sudeikis.
Dubbed Pebble Bar, the new multilevel watering hole with a secret entrance via Rockefeller Center replaces a longtime pub so frequented by “SNL” cast members they often referred to it as “Studio 1-H.” But Matt Kliegman, who is a partner investor in the space, told The Post he wanted the vibe to feel “residential” and “intimate,” despite its ritzy features and high-profile backers. “I brought my kids to FAO Schwartz the other day and we came here,” Kliegman said of the bar, which opened officially on Feb.
28. “We are one block from Times Square. We are in the building where ‘Saturday Night Live’ films. There is a broad spectrum in and around this area and so I think this is a place that is able to appeal to everyone.” The transformation will take the historic holdout property — which once hosted the cherished Irish saloon Hurley’s — full circle. “Hurley’s was long known for famed regulars like Johnny Carson, who had a personal back entrance, and novelist Jack Kerouac, whose writing on Hurley’s inspired the Pebble Bar name, David Letterman, who regularly filmed on-air on the third floor, and decades of ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast and staff, who dubbed the space ‘Studio 1-H,'” a press release stated.
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