Secretive club holds city’s oldest continuous liquor license

They've been pouring it on — legally — since Prohibition ended.

The city's oldest liquor license belongs to an Upper East Side club, a spirited review of state booze permits reveals.

The private Harmonie Club at 4 E. 60th St. has the city's oldest continuous liquor license.

The secretive club — which once counted Mayor Bloomberg as a member — was founded in 1852, but its license dates back to 1933, since all permits were null and void during Prohibition between 1920 and 1933, data shows.

Although Nathan's is best known for its hot dogs and gluttonous Fourth of July eating contest, the Coney Island institution has New York's oldest beer license, dating back to 1934, according to state records pored over by Pratt Institute Professor Ben Wellington.

Nearly all of New York's oldest watering holes have changed ownership over the years, and new proprietors often get their own license, so the data do not reveal which bar is the city's oldest.

" You always hear about this place or that place being the absolute oldest," Wellington said, explaining his motive for this study.

"But I found that places have changed hands, so places you think were the oldest really didn't make it."

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