Lawmakers rally to save Jimmy's Corner as beloved Midtown dive bar faces eviction ^0%

Gothamist - By Rhiannon Rashidi - 4/10/2026, 8:48 PM

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A group of lawmakers rallied Friday to stop the eviction of Jimmy’s Corner, the last remaining dive bar near Times Square. Jimmy's has been serving beers and shots since 1971, when the Crossroads of the World was a notorious epicenter of porn shops and skullduggery. The bar's founder, Jimmy Glenn, died of COVID-19 in 2020, and his son... more