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## [Blackbird: Dale DeGroff's landmark 1999 bar](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/blackbird-dale-degroffs-landmark-1999-bar/287)

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**Author:** [@ben](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/ben)\
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**Last updated:** [July 30, 2020, 9:37am UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/blackbird-dale-degroffs-landmark-1999-bar/287 "2020-07-30T09:37:22Z")

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For your consideration: a star-studded remembrance of the nine months in 1999 when Dale DeGroff ran his own New York bar, Blackbird. It paved the way for craft cocktail bars in that city, but has faded from memory. So le…