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 ...

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”?

Last week Shor had no lack of money, either. For $1,500,000 he sold his leasehold, which still has nine years to run, on his 51 West 51st Street restaurant, which he has operated since 1940.

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.

One of the more interesting revelations in the movie is that when Toots needed ready cash to open a second restaurant in 1960, he went to Jimmy Hoffa, who loaned him $7 million from the Teamsters ...

Site of Toots Shor's original bar at 51 West 51 Street, where the sporting crowd mingled with celebrities.

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

Rumor has it that legendary saloonkeeper Bernard "Toots" Shor - whose establishment in New York was a nocturnal haven for athletes, politicians and entertainment celebrities alike - once was engaged ...

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.