Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust

[upprdeck]

I wonder why Auburn can keep so many of these chains alive and Ithaca struggles.  About the same Population but Ithaca has a much larger college group around.

[marty]

I wonder why Auburn can keep so many of these chains alive and Ithaca struggles.  About the same Population but Ithaca has a much larger college group around.

Likely because it doesn't have The Boatyard, The Antlers  etc., etc.

[upprdeck]

Perhaps.   But I would take auburn places over those 2 any day,

[marty]

Perhaps.   But I would take auburn places over those 2 any day,

What are the great ones in Auburn?

[upprdeck]

Balloons
Sunset which closed over Covid
Lascas
Michaels
Osteria


casual stuff
like Kostas or Parkers or Prison city
spoon and fork


I do like Antlers
Never had a good meal at the Boatyard
Ciao is decent

[billhoward]

Tarzhay was and is an upscale alternative to WalMart. JC Penney felt like an upscale Sears Roebuck, and no tool department.

I still wonder where Ithacans shop if they want a nice suit: Syracuse / Binghamton, or all the way to NYC / Jersey / Westchester malls? The last suit I bought, a navy Ralph Lauren, came off eBay out of a rabbinical supply house in Miami. $150, worn once.

[upprdeck]

must be Bejamin Peters I guess.

Johns Tailors?

Kolhs has some cheaper stuff.

[George64]

Tarzhay was and is an upscale alternative to WalMart. JC Penney felt like an upscale Sears Roebuck, and no tool department.

I still wonder where Ithacans shop if they want a nice suit: Syracuse / Binghamton, or all the way to NYC / Jersey / Westchester malls? The last suit I bought, a navy Ralph Lauren, came off eBay out of a rabbinical supply house in Miami. $150, worn once.

I take it that Irv Lewis and Morris' Mens Shop are no longer options.  I'm retired and only wear suits to weddings and funerals, the latter now more frequent than the former.  I'm 42 regular if you need one.
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[marty]

Tarzhay was and is an upscale alternative to WalMart. JC Penney felt like an upscale Sears Roebuck, and no tool department.

I still wonder where Ithacans shop if they want a nice suit: Syracuse / Binghamton, or all the way to NYC / Jersey / Westchester malls? The last suit I bought, a navy Ralph Lauren, came off eBay out of a rabbinical supply house in Miami. $150, worn once.

I take it that Irv Lewis and Morris' Mens Shop are no longer options.  I'm retired and only wear suits to weddings and funerals, the latter now more frequent than the former.  I'm 42 regular if you need one.
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Haskell the Rascal Davidson's Browning King and Company is a memory that's fun to pull from the cobwebs in my head.

[upprdeck]

Ben Peters bought Irv Morris in 1994. and Just sold it to his employee in 21

[billhoward]

Well, thank you, I'm a 42-short.

Since I've been in tech publishing most of my life — i.e. no suits since the mid-90s, and the first time met Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, one was in flip=flops and one in board shorts. This decade I've bought only two suits and the most recent was an $800 Ralph Lauren navy suit (if you have only one, that's the color), $175 eBay make-offer accepted, from a Miami rabbinical supply house in Miami.

I believe Rochester - Syracuse would have better suits, probably Binghamton, and if you're Cornell faculty/staff you get to NYC a couple times a year.

Aside about old times: Haskell Davidson, proprietor of Browing King & Co., a clothing store / haberdashery, gone 50 years now (1973) was a good friend to Cornell hockey and organized the Ithaca Hockey Boosters's Ass'n. Hockey player fashion at the time was plaid wool slacks and a big leather jacket, usually with a turtleneck underneath. Today Cornell players off-ice in semi-formal settings look like they about to interview on Wall Street. A lot of them are. Jack O'Leary, bless him, wore nice loafers no socks to a post-game reception on a snowy night.

[David Harding]

A new sports bar coming to the Ithaca Commons. https://ithacavoice.org/2025/04/nightlife-new-sports-bar-to-open-in-former-range-space/

[upprdeck]

How has longshots been doing?

Interesting to tell a story and not actually tell the location?

[billhoward]

How has longshots been doing? Interesting to tell a story and not actually tell the location?

Longshots is in Triphammer Marketplace, the old strip mall with an pedestrian walkway indoors, on the near side of Route 13, the one with Ithaca Re-Use, an Ithaca Bakery outpost, nice wine store, just-closed-this-month Ithaca Coffee, and in winter the farmer's market ... not the bigger indoor mall that used to have JC Penney etcetera.

I've seen no definitive online reviews of Longshots.

PS Wouldn't hurt to append a dash and bar/restaurant name to the subject line.

[upprdeck]

I know where Longshots is.

I also have not heard from anyone who has gone there.  With Applebee's closing find a place to watch a game up in that area is pretty hard. Pizza and Bones does have a few Tvs.


I had no idea where this new one was. I rarely get down to the Commons anymore.  I mean I could google around and try to find the location from the mention of the place it also replaced but it would have been easier with a location in the story itself.