# Old New York Bars in the News
**URL:** https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/old-new-york-bars-in-the-news/196
**Category:** Bars & Bartenders
**Created:** [January 14, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/old-new-york-bars-in-the-news/196 "2020-01-14T16:07:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@RobertSimonson](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/RobertSimonson)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/old-new-york-bars-in-the-news/196/1 "2020-01-14T16:07:07Z")
Old New York saloons have been much in the news the past week. Every time I see a headline with an old bar’s name in it, I get heart palpitations. It’s rarely good news. This times, in the Neir’s case, we averted disaster.
> **[Matty Maher, an Institution at an Institution, McSorley’s, Dies at 80](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/nyregion/matty-maher-dead.html)**
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> As bartender, manager and owner, he helped the East Village saloon survive neighborhood blight and change its ways by admitting women and banning smoking.
> **[After 190 Years, the ‘Most Famous Bar You’ve Never Heard of’ Avoids Last Call](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/nyregion/neirs-tavern-closing.html?searchResultPosition=1)**
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> The owner of Neir’s Tavern in Queens said it would close on Sunday, barring a “miracle.” The city, it turns out, works in mysterious ways.
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### Author:  [@Splificator](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/Splificator)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/old-new-york-bars-in-the-news/196/2 "2020-01-14T22:41:25Z")
Sad to lose Matty, though. His fund of stories appeared to me to be inexhaustible. I was at a table once at McSorley’s with him and gaz and hoo, boy. I wish I had recorded it.