To circumvent liquor license laws ... and within months the Mafia had closed the bar. Today, the Stonewall Inn is a National Historic Landmark and has been restored to its former status as ...

the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street was a typical New York City Mafia-run bar: patrons drank over-priced, watered-down, and often bootlegged liquor; there was no running water; and the bar ...