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19th-century tavern, P.J. Clarke's at East 55th Street and Third Avenue. Even on Christmas Day, when hanging around a bar can be pretty emotionally grim, Clarke's preserves a warm and festive mood as comforting as Capra film. Last night, as the fireworks over New York Harbor boomed, Clarke's was happy and active, the long bar ringing with drink orders, the back restaurant glowing, Sinatra on the juke box (the eclectic selection of jukebox tunes at Clarke's has been the source of interest and articles).
P.J. Clarke's is itself a hold out, a squat, brick building that dates from 1868 now on a block of skyscrapers (history of P.J. Clarke's). Clarke's was a neighborhood staple in the days when Third Avenue was packed with tenements and elevated trains rumbled at interval overhead. Louis Armstrong once played the trumpet in Clarke's back room. Jackie O was a visitor. Johnny Mercer supposedly wrote the song "One for My Baby" on a napkin at Clarke's long, wooden bar. Sinatra also used to frequent Clarke's. Sinatra admired the massive men's room urinals (that still exist), proclaiming that you could stand New York City Mayor Abe Beame inside one of them. The famous, refrigerator-sized urinals were pulled out and cast in plaster to create reproductions that will be installed in campanion locations for P.J. Clarke's located downtown and near Columbus Circle.
19th-century tavern, P.J. Clarke's at East 55th Street and Third Avenue. Even on Christmas Day, when hanging around a bar can be pretty emotionally grim, Clarke's preserves a warm and festive mood as comforting as Capra film. Last night, as the fireworks over New York Harbor boomed, Clarke's was happy and active, the long bar ringing with drink orders, the back restaurant glowing, Sinatra on the juke box (the eclectic selection of jukebox tunes at Clarke's has been the source of interest and articles).
P.J. Clarke's is itself a hold out, a squat, brick building that dates from 1868 now on a block of skyscrapers (history of P.J. Clarke's). Clarke's was a neighborhood staple in the days when Third Avenue was packed with tenements and elevated trains rumbled at interval overhead. Louis Armstrong once played the trumpet in Clarke's back room. Jackie O was a visitor. Johnny Mercer supposedly wrote the song "One for My Baby" on a napkin at Clarke's long, wooden bar. Sinatra also used to frequent Clarke's. Sinatra admired the massive men's room urinals (that still exist), proclaiming that you could stand New York City Mayor Abe Beame inside one of them. The famous, refrigerator-sized urinals were pulled out and cast in plaster to create reproductions that will be installed in campanion locations for P.J. Clarke's located downtown and near Columbus Circle.
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