Monthly Archives: December 2014

Goodbye Subway Inn

December 4, 2014 – 8:16 pm

Last Friday night I had a last drink at the Subway Inn on East 60th Street. The property owners was evicting the 77-year-old Manhattan bar to erect a towering luxury condo. I first drank in the Subway back in 1977. It was a classic dive bar then and most recently my boss frowned upon hearing […]

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Making An Entrance

December 4, 2014 – 4:57 pm

Area on Hudson was one of New York’s most popular nightclubs in the 80s. Every night hundreds of people waited beyond the velvet ropes for entrance. Admission wasn’t a given. But in this photo the baldish man in the foreground was headed to the bar to order a cognac and coke. It was his drink. […]

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You Bet I Would – Skimpy

December 4, 2014 – 4:50 pm

I love skimpy clothing except on me. Quelle vroom.

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102 For Linford

December 1, 2014 – 8:53 pm

This evening I stopped into Frank’s Lounge. The venerable owner was in the corner. “I heard you said Linford is gone.” The old Jamaica has returned to the Blue Mountains in the Here-After. “Yeah, I heard it from a bartender on Myrtle Avenue.” “He drank over there.” “The bartender was cute.” “Cute as Rosa.” Frank […]

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RIP Linford

December 1, 2014 – 9:06 am

Another chink of Brooklyn gnu to the Here-After. Linford, I knew him from Frank’s Lounge. A good man and a gentle Jamaican. RIP. foto by Shannon Greer

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