Scroll to the bottom to hear PortSide's interview with Sunny Balzano.  Sunny Balzano was the beloved owner of a legendary bar, opened in 1890, which became known as Sunny’s after his uncle, who last ran it, passed. Suuny died March 10, 2016...

" We have mostly men here - very few women.  No unattached women permitted at the bar. That’s a simple way of preventing trouble." One of the best known watering holes in Red Hook was the Shaft Alley saloon. Fortune magazine, in a 1937 essay...