Jeffrey Kroessler, Ph.D., is the founder of the Queensborough Preservation League and co-author of Historic Preservation in Queens . He serves as an adjunct professor in urban history at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus and is well-known as a curator of major exhibitions at the Queens Historical Society, Fraunces Tavern, and elsewhere. Richard McDermott is the publisher of The New York Chronicle, which he established in 1987. We welcome your responses, so please feel free to share them with us via our preformatted e-mail form . A ritual steeped in nostalgia takes place on the last Thursday of every month in a dark bar on the Upper West Side.
Enthusiastic people crowd around a table to talk about New York.
They speak of the city like lovers. They gather at the same table at Donahue's bar, just to talk. The numbers vary, but at least a few of them always show up. We meet in this bar because it's near Val Ginter. He lives down the block.