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April 2008

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illage Voice dining critic Robert Sietsema suggests Keens Steakhouse for a dose of New York history. The restaurant opened in 1885 as a gentlemen-only supper club where regular patrons would stow their thin-stemmed clay pipes (called churchwardens), then in vogue and too fragile to be transported. Members of the "pipe club" got a card with a unique pipe number, used for retrieving each man's pipe from the storage room. Once the storage room filled, Keens began hanging the clay pipes on the walls and ceilings, where they are still visible today.

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