The Newsroom is a speakeasy hidden behind a 1920s-themed newsstand in Long Island City — you walk in through what looks like a working newsstand, ring a buzzer, and slip through a Coke/Snapple vending-machine door into the bar floor. The food program is Nuevo Latino fusion by Chef Ricardo Cardona (head chef for the New York Yankees) with Chef Jonathan Broadwater alongside — small plates that lean Caribbean and South American rather than Spanish-tapas (a catalog earlier mis-tag now corrected). Limited speakeasy hours (Thursday 6-10pm, Friday/Saturday 6-11pm) plus themed-cocktail menu ("Interview", "Front Page") plus aerialist/jazz programming nights make it a multi-purpose late-night room rather than a destination cocktail program. For Long Island City's most theatrical bar entrance and a Nuevo Latino food program with chef credentials — the newsstand entrance is the editorial signature.
