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Best Smokers' Retreat  

Best of New York 2004
Jump to full article: New York Magazine, 2004-03-22

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Now comes Luke and Leroy, a two-story lounge that opened in December, to give our much-put-upon smoking drinkers the attention they don't get elsewhere. In a red-roped six-by-twelve-foot sidewalk smokers' annex outside, an electric fireplace dances with fake flames, and the mantle offers bowls of marshmallows. When the weather warms up, the bar will scrap this tableau for a new seasonal one: beach chairs around a kiddie pool filled with sand that serves as an ashtray, all under a wide umbrella for those non-beachy nights. See, smokers? Someone does care.

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