Tom's Foreign Auto Repairs is now Broadway Mechanic Services. The space formerly occupied by Bakersfield Bar at 5060 Broadway is now the Ming Moon Buffet. According to a Yelp review Bakersfield was a bad place where someone got murdered, maybe at the time I lived there. A little web sleuthing reveals that the space at 5060 Broadway might also have been called Passions Lounge. I don't know if the murder story is true, but Bakersfield had a somewhat estimable history. According to an August 22, 1992, story in the New York Times, "When Representative Joseph P. Kennedy, son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, spoke at a conference on Irish-American affairs in the neighborhood earlier this year, he had breakfast at Bakersfield."

Read a little bit more about this place over at sorabji.com.

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• 5057 Broadway