Category Archives: Drinking

Goodbye Subway Inn – 2014

July 14, 2024 – 6:16 am

On July 24, 2014 I had a last drink at the Subway Inn on East 60th Street. The property owners were 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 […]

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Antlers – Kingsley Ami’s

June 13, 2024 – 5:33 pm

I woke up this morning with a hangover so bad, I thought I had grown antlers. – Kingsley Amis

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Man O Manischewitz 2012

March 28, 2024 – 4:03 am

In 2012 Fort Greene was a friendly neighborhood. People said hello to each other. I smiled greetings, glad to be here. It was a ‘we’ world, although I wished I was in Thailand with my family. Across the street an elderly Trinidadian woman collected beer cans and bottles for the deposit money. I gave Jinny […]

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In Vino Madidus

March 14, 2024 – 1:33 am

Staying with Latin. Sitting at home with a bottle of wine. Non veritas Not true. Solo madidus In vino madidus Soaked in wine. A paraphrase of Julius Caesar’s classic ‘veni, vedi, vinci’ or ‘I came, I saw, I conquered.’ Veni, vedi, madidus means I came I drank I fell over. We’ve all been Classical Latin […]

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A Quiet Place To Drink

March 11, 2024 – 9:58 am

Luis Bunuel wrote in LAST GASP “I also remember a bar at the Plaza Hotel in New York, a busy meeting place which at the time was off limits to women. Any friend of mine passing through New York knew that if he wanted to find me, he had only to go to the Plaza […]

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