Posted on 01/23/2024 1:02:38 PM PST by 1Old Pro
ALBANY — Jack’s Oyster House, the oldest and most storied restaurant in New York’s capital city — host to bivalve-slurping power lunches for generations of politicians, including every New York governor since its 1913 founding — is officially closed and being put on the market, owner Brad Rosenstein said Monday.
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But, NY is driving out business in Albany, high taxes, accelerating crime, Democrat mayors, Democrat majority government.
Nobody wants to go to Albany, and why would you?
Democrats killing the Golden Goose with their failed policies.
Sounds like a good place to get food poisoning
Given the murder rate, a good place for your last dinner.
If you don’t get murdered, it’s a great state for penury, too, with the taxes.
We all have to die sometime. Why not after a good meal with ones friends? I don’t fear death so much as a less lived life.
The state with the highest taxes is New York. New York is one of the states with highest income tax rates as well as high sales tax rates, high property taxes, and high excise taxes.
More concrete signs of a booming economy under bidenomics...
Yep, and not prosecuting crimes isn't a big help either.
Do pink-haired lesbians and marxists who now run NY State eat oysters - especially in old-style restaurants with dark oak and leather chairs?
Sounds like a great restaurant, unfortunately in a dying downtown and state that has radically changed.
He should move and re-open in Dallas or Boca Raton.
Nope, they despise tradition.
“He is open to selling the Jack’s Oyster House name, “But it would have to be the right person, the right fit”
Really.....doesn’t sound like he’s in much of a position to dictate terms.......yankees SMH
He'll be lucky to sell it for half what he wants.
“Democrats killing the Golden Goose with their failed policies.”
It’s what Democrats do.
No they prefer bearded clams...
Now it's a big thing. https://www.wellfleetchamber.com/wellfleet-oysterfest/
I’ve told this story before, but it’s a good one.
I grew up in Ithaca, NY from 1960-1965. Before that we were in Thornwood in Westchester County, then in Utica, and finally in Syracuse. When I was about 12 in Ithaca (about 1963 - 60 years ago!), I remember Dad and his buddies grousing one Saturday afternoon about NYS taxes and how much of their money went to NYC. It’s my first political memory. Some things don’t change and some states just don’t learn.
One of my Dad’s buddies lived on “Texas Lane” in Ithaca. He has one of those address things on top of his mailbox where you insert the number and street name. He swapped the “e” and “a” so it read “120 Taxes Lane.” I proudly went up to him and said “Mr. Smith, you goofed on the address on your mailbox. You spelled ‘Texas’ wrong.” All the men got a good laugh out of the green kid not knowing it was on purpose!
Now one of the most leftist cities in NYS.
Yep. Like so many leftist shit-holes, it was a swell place in the post-war years. (as in “Gee, Beeve, that’s swell!”)
I couldn’t afford to eat there.
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