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April 28, 2010
Farewell to Freddy's! Beloved watering hole near Yards closes for good on Friday
Courier-Life Publications
by Stephen Brown
Follow the link for some interesting Freddy's history.
Hipsters, old-timers, and barflies will raise their glasses at Freddy’s Bar for the last time on Friday — making a final toast to a Prohibition-era watering hole, but one man won’t be there: the man whose name is on the awning.
Freddy Chadderton, who sold the bar to its current owner in 1996, lives on Long Island — but at age 82, he isn’t looking back at his salad days.
“I had a good run,” he told us this week.
But Chadderton is one of the few people connected with this bar that isn’t crying at least a bit in his beer this week, recalling a neighborhood joint that apparently has to be torn down so that Bruce Ratner can build a basketball arena.
Posted by eric at April 28, 2010 11:15 AM