Loycent Gordon, who owns Neir’s Tavern in Queens, likes to call the place “the most famous bar you’ve never heard of.”

Neir’s claim to its limited fame comes from its age: It opened in 1829 in the Woodhaven neighborhood, and Mr. Gordon has long said that makes it the oldest bar in New York City to continuously operate in the same location.

Locals claim that Mae West may have begun her performance career in its ballroom, and that Neir’s was a regular haunt of President Trump’s father, Fred, who grew up in Woodhaven.

Also, it was immortalized in the 2011 film “Tower Heist” with Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy, and provided the setting for memorable bar scenes from the 1990 mob classic “Goodfellas.”