You know you’re getting old when your bartenders start retiring on you. Good bartenders are welcome anchors in this ever-changing, once-nocturnal city — particularly for those of us who keep late hours. (I’ve been an editor at The Times for a quarter century, working mostly at night.) He routinely worked Times holiday parties, goodbye parties, promotion parties — all while maintaining his good cheer and crafting tasty Negronis and Manhattans. That “Phantom” thing, which played at the Majestic Theater across 44th Street and closed in April, lasted a mere 35 years.

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Persons: I’ve, It’s, Joe, Duffy Organizations: The Times, Heineken, Majestic Theater