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A Guy Walks Into a Bar in Brooklyn (Part 2 of 2)

By Roadmonkey | Published May 10, 2012

by Paul von Zielbauer (Continued from last week’s blog post) So I’m sitting at Denny’s Steak Pub – an island of working-class Caucasians floating in a sea of beer and surrounded by working-class South Asian immigrants, in Brooklyn’s Kensington neighborhood. The kind of place that can’t be bothered to change its sign outside even though [...]

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A Guy Walks Into a Bar in Brooklyn (part 1)

By Roadmonkey | Published May 1, 2012

by Paul von Zielbauer There is a reason that Roadmonkey was invented in New York City. Tonight’s experience in a dive bar in the heart of Brooklyn illustrates the point. I walked into Denny’s Steak Pub, on the corner of Church Avenue & McDonald Avenue, in Kensington – deep enough into Brooklyn that you’re not [...]

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