P&G Bar, Upper West Side Institution, Has To Move

Unmoved by a petition signed by over 4,500 people, an Upper West Side landlord has refused to renew the lease on the 66-year-old P&G bar, whose iconic sign is familiar to many from cameos on Seinfeld (and its ideal proximity to the Beacon Theatre). So Steve Chahalis, the fourth-generation owner of the bar, located at Amsterdam Avenue and 73rd Street, has decided to relocate a few blocks away. He's putting on a brave face, and tells the Observer his new subterranean location is more than four times bigger than the original. (There's also a stage and a full kitchen.) But the Observer worries that moving the famous sign will be logistically impractical and also require approval from the landmarks commission. Also, what will neighbors like the Museum of Natural History think of all that neon?

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By John Del Signore in Food on November 26, 2008 5:32 PM

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ides_of_march

First Yogi's now this. It seems any place with character doesn't stand a chance.

#1 Enough with the Palin derangement syndrome. If you can shoe-horn an insult to her into a comment about a UWS bar closing almost a month after the election, you really are deranged.

Snoopy

Are there any people over 40 that live on the UWS? Forget about Yoko Asshole, she married into money and still is ugly. I always thought it was a camp ground for out of work actors and actresses as well as architects and others that never really got their shit together. A transient community so to speak.

RedWhiteandBrooklyn

And here's to the 4,500 who signed the petition to keep P&Gs where it is. Beer are on me. Too bad about your nosy neighbors who complained.

RedWhiteandBrooklyn

My God! Is there any place on earth filled with more sorry, lame-assed idiots than the Upper West Side?

Hey! West Side yahoos! Yeah... Jerry Seinfeld was mocking you with his show, only you haven't the brains to realize it. You NIMBY morons who wrote against letting a bar, open for 66 years, continue to operate in it's location are the Sarah Palins of New Yorkers: too stupid to know how stupid you are. You probably think that you're champions of freedom and defenders of free enterprise and free choice. Yeah... just not in your precious neighborhood.

Idiots!