Word: barred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...center. When built by Metropolitan between 1938 and 1942, Parkchester cost $67 million. Even though it yielded $14.9 million in rents last year, Metropolitan has for some time yearned to unload it. New York City rent control has kept the top rent on a three-bedroom apartment to a bar gain $165 a month, even while taxes and operating costs have soared...
...talked about the place. "It's like a club in a way," she said. "I have lots of parties here for the regular people ... we have pictures of the parties." She said that the police had few complaints about the Sunset, commenting, "We have some complaints, but no bar and grill is perfect. There are a lot of restaurants that serve liquor who are worse. Why they even had a ... an incident at the Copacabana a couple of years...
WHETHER the Sunset causes problems for the police or not, one thing is sure: the bar and grill will soon be thrown out of the location which it has occupied since Rockville Center was a true village in a still bucolic Long Island. An urban renewal project has been grinding away in the area for over ten years, and the developer in charge of the project has told the owners of the Sunset that they must leave in a year or two to make way for a 175-unit housing project and an industrial park...
...tell you that they don't want us to leave," Deloros said. "We're not opposed to the new housing and all but we think they ought to take the wishes of the people in the neighborhood into account." Several heads of middle-aged men sitting at the bar nodded in agreement...
...juke box began to play James Brown and a teenaged girl who had been sitting at the end of the bar danced a couple of steps as she walked out. It was becoming hard to hear, but Deloros meditated out loud for a moment on the Sunset's future: "You take the people's pleasures away from them and then you have violence. Nobody wants violence." She paused and her gaze roamed over the rows of liquor bottles behind the bar, coming to rest on fresh pictures of John and Robert Kennedy on either side of Martin Luther King...