Mastro, who has peaked eyebrows and unruly white hair, is soft-spoken, but, even by the pugilistic standards of the New York bar, he has a reputation as a merciless litigator.
If you come from another American state, or from another country that practises English-style common law (in which precedents set by judges are all-important), it is a matter of mugging up and passing the New York bar exam.
"The need is so vast, " said Lynn Kelly, executive director of the City Bar Justice Center, a nonprofit arm of the New York City Bar Association that has worked on more than 400 Sandy-related cases.
Kristine and Betsy met when Betsy was President of the New York City Bar Association.
Four hours after meeting at a New York wine bar, we were kissing in Central Park in a warm September foggy mist.
Earlier last month, the state of New York announced a new requirement for all lawyers applying to the New York State Bar.
The casual venue has the laidback feel of a New York dive bar with neon artwork, mirrors and graffiti on the walls.
Some states, including New York, bar stop-loss insurers from covering small groups.
They recently threw a preview party for the tech press at a New York City bar, emphasizing that their desired audience comprises social gamers and other casual players.
The drink is popping up on New York restaurant and bar menus and being sold as a mixer, on tap and even in growlers.
Phra Klairung Rujidhammo was recently catapulted to national fame when he was filmed performing suggestive dance moves, known here as coyote dancing after the film "Coyote Ugly" set in a New York dance-bar.
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Guttenberg hatched the scheme with Franklin in New York's Oyster Bar restaurant, according to the SEC complaint.
But it likely occurred around 1998 in upstate New York at a dive bar with sticky floors and the Rolling Stones, maybe Bruce Springsteen, blasting from jukebox.
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As for that UBS tipping case, 12 of the defendants have settled or pleaded guilty, including Mitchel Guttenberg, the former institutional client manager of UBS's research department who was accused of selling upcoming downgrade tips to hedge fund clients in a scheme hatched with a friend at New York's Oyster Bar.
Old New York, with its brawling bar rooms, smoke stacks and fervent hopes for a better life, has become the next big thing.
Above the bar hangs a New York license plate which reads 'HAMMERED'.
"I've never heard of them, " Rebecca Charles, owner of New York City's Pearl Oyster Bar, said of New Jersey's offerings.
But in London, where the New York event was relayed to a basement bar, Spotify's UK boss Chris Maples told me this was something customers had been crying out for.
At a gallery opening in Jacmel I met an artist who'd spent the '60s tending bar at jazz clubs in New York.
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Oyster Bar at Grand Central -- New York institution where the fish is fresh and prepared with commendable simplicity.
The Carlyle Hotel's Bemelmans bar is perhaps the stuffiest of New York's hotel bars, and one that requires a cover charge after 9:30 pm when various jazz musicians perform.
The trend to create entertainment hubs above the hectic urban bustle started a decade ago in New York, where 35 hotels now feature a rooftop bar, many of which have pools.
So far, this appears to be largely a New York phenomenon, though San Francisco's Coffee Bar does now put out signs when the shop is crowded asking laptop users to share tables and make space for other customers.
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Equipped with a bar-code reader to scan New York registration stickers and synchronized with an atomic clock in Colorado, the devices make it almost impossible for an agent to make the kinds of errors Bolofsky depends on for appeals.
Now owned by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, Monkey Bar seems most likely of all of New York's classic hotel bars to be a destination for people out on the town.
We were joined by chef Michael Lomonaco, who runs Center Bar as well as the nearby Porter House New York steakhouse.
Thomas died in 1953 after collapsing in a New York hotel and some scenes will be shot in a Greenwich Village bar.
"I have a big concern that we don't actually know what his policies are because you know throughout the primary he had his policies that he would speak about, and since he clinched the nomination on June 3, he's really backtracked, " said Nili Navot, 28, an education worker from New York who came to Washington for the PUMA happy hour at the bar.
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