Jack Dempsey's Broadway Restaurant
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Jack Dempsey's Broadway Restaurant, known popularly as Jack Dempsey's, was a restaurant on Broadway in Manhattan, New York at the site of the old car barn across from Madison Square Garden. Owned by world Heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Dempsey, it was considered by many as an American institution. The restaurant opened for business in 1935 and most nights would find its famous proprietor on hand to greet guests, sign autographs, pose for pictures and hold court with the famous from all walks of life.
Located next door to Jack Amiel's "Turf Restaurant" on Times Square, Amiel became famous as the owner of the "underdog" horse Count Turf who won the 1951 Kentucky Derby. A few years after his Derby win, Jack Amiel became a co-owner of Jack Dempsey's Restaurant, which closed in 1974.
There still is a Jack Demsey's restaurant on 33rd across from the Empire State Building. Any affiliation with the former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey is unknown. But the close spelling of the name seems to take advantage of the once famous boxer and his restaurant by attracting tourists.
