From Bergondo, according to Fernández & Argeo, he ‘owned and ran the first saloon opened after the Prohibition in the Spanish neighborhood on New York’s Lower East Side’, Roosevelt Tavern as well as Central Bar-Restaurant (Source: James. D. Fernández and Luis Argeo, Invisible Immigrants. Spaniards in the US (1868-1945) (2014), Blog entry in Spanish Immigrants in the US.