Tag Archives: bars

• EAR INN

  December 10, 2008

  Tags:bars, Manhattan, Tribeca
  

  

  Whenever I find myself in the Ear Inn, 326 Spring Street between Greenwich and Washington, it always seems to be a crystal clear but blustery day and that’s just as well, since this is a comforting oasis amid the rapidly-changing west end of Soho. This area has been targeted by developers and huge residential towers have been [...]

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• IGGY POPPED. Lizard weeps as Lone Star Cafe Building bites the dust

  November 14, 2007

  Tags:bars, Lone Star Cafe, restaurants
  

  Walking down 13th Street one day in November 2007, upon reaching 5th Avenue I was amazed to see that a building that hosted one of the premier clubs during my youth appeared to be ready for demolition. For not quite 13 years, beginning in 1976, the Lone Star was a haven for Texas-style bad behavior in New [...]

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• OPEN SESAME: Open House New York 2007 Part 1

  October 8, 2007

  Tags:bars, Manhattan, Paul Rudolph, restaurants
  

  FNY’s second installment of Open House NY 2007 takes your webmaster to a narrow, 3-story house on East 58th Street designed and built by Modernist architect Paul Rudolph, and a swank restaurant in the Rock Center vicinity dominated by my favorite color, orange… The Modulightor Building, 246 East 58th Street near 2nd Avenue and the Queensboro Bridge [...]

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• NY’S ANCIENT BARS

  March 12, 2005

  Tags:Astoria, bars, Greenwich Village, Queens, Tribeca, Union Square
  

  I have no past. No wild youth to be ashamed about now. When I was young, though, I was frequently drunk. I was drunk, but I was never a drunk; I never came to depend on it. One day, I decided I didn’t want to be drunk any more, and so, from then on, I have never been. [...]

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