Stories from 35 years (and counting) as a bartender in New York City— a prime location to view a constantly changing city, and the hilarity and heartbreak of... well, us.
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You want to be the first stop on a pub crawl
This is purely from a bartender’s point of view. Now these gentlemen were our first customers on Saturday, celebrating a birthday and embarking on a pub crawl. They were in high spirits at high noon, and kept Mary and me hopping for a coupl...
Good Grief
They did not slip in unnoticed. I approached as they stood looking uncertainly around the bar. After a quick check to make sure the rest of the Peanuts gang wasn’t bringing up the rear, I grabbed two menus and led them to a table in the din...
‘We will smile again and we will laugh again and there will be good times’
I can’t remember today’s Wordle, but it’s impossible to forget 9/11/2001—especially for anyone who was here in New York City 25 years ago today.
I woke up that morning, turned on the news and saw that a plane had hit a tower in the World...
Mr. Crankypants
People are not generally grouchy at McManus, except for Bill, a regular who is always the first to arrive when I work on Fridays. Sometimes he’s impatiently waiting as I unlock the door, and I think it’s mostly because he wants to be sure t...
‘Pretty slim pickings in the joy department’
Struggling to figure out what to write for this week’s LBB, I went up to the attic in search of old journals from the 1990s, thinking something might jog memories of long-forgotten McManus stories. I found a stack and settled in to read....
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