{"id":589,"date":"2006-03-07T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2010-12-22T00:41:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T00:41:41","slug":"589","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/589\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news from the Raven, NYC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Good news from the Raven, NYC!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Happily, the building has passed the city&#8217;s inspector&#8217;s tests and &#8211; with luck &#8211; may be reopening in a month or so!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/vbulletin\/\" target=\"_blank\">urban75 bulletin board users<\/a> posted up their appreciation of this fabulous East Village bar:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Retro<\/strong>: &#8220;I do hope they get it back together. It&#8217;s one of those bars that is nothing special on the surface but lots of small things makes it special.<\/p>\n<p>For example the buy back system seems to have died out in many NYC bars around the gentrified areas but not at the raven. Even when it&#8217;s packed the barman will always remember your 4th beer and give it to you with a enthusiastic &#8220;Cheers guys!!!!&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>duval:<\/strong> &#8220;My lasting memories of the Raven are of a friendly place where my friends and i could sit in the dim lighting and enjoy some liquor and fine tunes. I was last there on Dec 29th, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, Joey Ramone had just died (although we didn&#8217;t know it at that time)&#8230;.my friend and I were walking and saw the sign out the front &#8216;RIP Joey Ramone&#8217;. We staggered in and were greeted with free shots (well, we are Australian), a smile and Rock n&#8217; Roll High School on the TV screen. A night that is still talked about every time we catch up&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope this place is rebuilt and another LEGENDARY New York bar isn&#8217;t lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/jscooch\/iWeb\/Raven_NYC\/Raven_Photos.html\" target=\"_blank\">Latest Raven photos by Jim<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news from the Raven, NYC! Happily, the building has passed the city&#8217;s inspector&#8217;s tests and &#8211; with luck &#8211; may be reopening in a month or so! urban75 bulletin &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[196,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nightlife","category-new-york"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-589","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}