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T.J. Byrnes, a No-Frills Irish Pub, Draws a Martini Crowd

T.J. Byrnes, a No-Frills Irish Pub, Draws a Martini Crowd

Misty Gonzales has been tending bar at T.J. Byrnes, an Irish pub in the Financial District of Manhattan, for 13 years. For most of that time, she has served office workers, college students and city employees. Two years ago, she noticed some unfamiliar faces. This new crowd was younger and usually stopped in for poetry […]

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The Unlikely Friendship That Saved a Dive Bar

The Unlikely Friendship That Saved a Dive Bar

As the chief executive of Golden Age Hospitality, Mr. Neidich, 43, runs a chic downtown empire that includes the Le Dive in Dimes Square and the Nines piano bar, where a caviar potato costs $99. That would seem to put him a long way from Lucy’s — but 18 years ago, when he was an

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Rose Girone, Oldest Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 113

Rose Girone, Oldest Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 113

Rose Girone was eight months pregnant and living in Breslau, Germany, in 1938 when her husband was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. She secured passage to Shanghai, only to be forced to live in a bathroom in a Jewish ghetto for seven years. Once settled in the United States, she rented whatever she could

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