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Holiday Cocktail Lounge Open Again... For Now
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 19, 2009
Modified Jan 19, 2009
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Quintessential St. Mark's Place dive bar Holiday Cocktail Lounge has reopened after going dark around the beginning of the year, EV Grieve reports. The nightspot has been the Holiday since 1965, when it was bought by Stefan Lutak, who's now in his '90s and was recently hospitalized. Vanishing New York finds that while he's doing better, the fate of the Holiday is still uncertain. Vanishing also finds Lutak's history of the bar on one wall: "A lot of 'Punk Rockers,' drinking beer and making noise, began crowding all the time in front of the Deli. People were getting very nervous. One night I invited them all into our bar and they come all the time now and behave very well." For the time being, the Holiday's open only on Friday and Saturday nights, so if you want a fitting place to drown your sorrows over Love Saves the Day's closing, you'll have to wait until the weekend.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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