Miles has been going to Ace Bar all his life.Dogs in bars have long been banned in NYC, but it was a look-the-other-way offense that was much ignored. Actually, I could not resist linking to the article in the NYT because I liked the second paragraph, but I do think that it would have been better if the powers had continued to look the other way for well-behaved dog patrons. That dogs are not allowed even at outside tables, is pushing the rules too far.
His face has grayed there. Friends have come and gone. He never paid for a drink, but rarely walked out of the East Village bar with an empty stomach. He may have purged his dinner on the floor a time or two, his fellow bar patrons said, but who among them hadn’t done the same?
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“He’s a dog, but I swear he looks sad,” Mike Israely, 33, said of Miles, his 9-year-old boxer-pug mix, as the dog peered through Ace Bar’s glass doors Thursday night. “Coming here was part of our evening walk.”
Once we took Diana to a Mardi Gras parade here in Thibodaux, only to be told that dogs were not allowed at parades. The officer did not make us leave with Diana, which was kind of him, and we haven't tested the rule again.
