Toots Shor’s original establishment was razed 60 years ago, a first jolt of the changes coming to Midtown’s drinking, sporting and entertainment scene.

AT the height of his fame in the 1950s, Toots Shor was the world’s best-known restaurateur, a quintessential New York character who hobnobbed with Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason, Joe DiMaggio … ...

Toots Shor is one of those great Damon Runyon-style links to an America that seems very far away from the country we live in today.

His pals are sportsmen, athletes, politicians, showfolk, journalists and has-beens; in short, Toots Shor is a Runyonesque character too true to be fictional. For 19 years, he ran one of the most ...

Shor is almost forgotten today – but “Toots,” a captivating new documentary that premieres tonight at the Tribeca Film Festival, does a great job of bringing him back to life.

Toots Shor was perhaps the greatest sports bar of all time. And it was made great by what would probably disqualify it from even being considered a sports bar today: There were no TVs offering ...

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”?

Early on in "Toots," the new documentary about legendary New York saloon keeper Toots Shor, we get to see Frank Sinatra recalling the night Toots asked him to come to dinner at his joint with some ...

Kristi Jacobson made this documentary about her grandfather Toots Shor, whose restaurant and saloon were the locus of the '40s and '50s New York social world - not the born-wealthy social world ...