Why Frank Sinatra loved New York?

Comment RSS Email Print FRANK SINATRA    (ALLPOSTERS.COM) Gay Talese wrote in 1966; "The only other time I’d gotten a close view of him was at Jilly’s, which is on West Fifty-second Street in Manhattan,(it)is where Sinatra drinks whenever he is in New York, and there is a special chair reserved for him in the back room against the wall that nobody else may use. When he is occupying it, seated behind a long table flanked by his closest New York friends — who include the saloonkeeper, Jilly Rizzo, and Jilly’s azure-haired wife, Honey,  — a rather strange ritualistic scene develops. That night dozens of people, some of them casual friends of…

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