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This is the third Manhattan location for Bar And Books, which first opened in 1990 as a clubby lounge for cigars, scotch, whiskey, vintage port, wine, and other spirits. (They also have a couple in Prague.) This outpost is located on First Avenue and 50th Street, and features a back room for smoking, a front room for breathing, complimentary cigars for ladies on Mondays, and discount whiskeys on Tuesday nights. There's an impressive cheese and charcuterie platter, and every night is James Bond night, with decidedly un-bookish Bond flicks on the flat screens. So if you ever need a place to backslap your cronies as you cackle about your plans for global domination—and the Yale Club's booked—keep this in mind.
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seriously boring. Raj is a douche.
Smoking in that location (below grade} is another hazard to your health. Unless there is another entrance/ exit, that I can't see, it's a fire trap.
This same location was a Bar and Books or something similar (the Library?) years ago.
This same location used to be Bar and Books! Here is an excerpt from a NYTimes article from June 1996:
"Last year, about 350 square feet became available behind RajMar Holdings/Bar and Books' cocktail lounge at 50th Street and First Avenue. RajMar put in some humidors and overstuffed chairs, and turned it into the Cigar Bar, a reservation-only room that accommodates 25 cigar smokers."