Little Ruby’s Café Replacing The Iconic Riviera Café In Greenwich Village

or 48 long years, the bi-level Riviera Café was known as the nexus of nightlife in the West Village, located at Sheridan Square, across from the Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the gay movement, and nearby cabarets Marie’s Crisis Café and the Duplex. But in August 2017, it closed.

For six years, the site stayed boarded up and vacant, a vestige of Greenwich Village’s heyday when nightlife flourished and the beatniks, hippies and rebel rousers prevailed. But there’s vitality again since Little Ruby’s Café, a local bar and eatery, opened on October 16 where the Riviera Café stood for over four decades.