The natty bar owner personally met his customers at the door for decades, perpetually resplendent in his work clothes — topped by one of his 46 hats. Hargress, who received a key to the city from Mayor de Blasio, bought the bar and its surrounding building for just $35,000 in pre-gentrified Harlem.
Legendary Harlem jazz bar owner Samuel Hargress Jr. dead at 84 from coronavirus complications
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