Terminal Bar was a

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at 41st Street and 8th Avenue. It had a reputation as one of the roughest bars in the city and was located across from the

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. Terminal Bar originally had a mainly

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clientele, but over time evolved into a predominantly

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and

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bar. The Terminal Bar was featured in the

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film ''

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'' and was the subject of an award-winning American documentary short film, '' Terminal Bar'', directed by

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that used a combination of animation, live action and black-and-white photography of Terminal Bar's former patrons taken by the director's father, bartender Sheldon Nadelman, from 1972 to 1982. Scorsese paid tribute again in 1985, featuring a pub called "The Terminal Bar" in his film ''

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''; The Emerald Pub in

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stood in for the defunct Terminal Bar. A collection of Sheldon Nadelman's Terminal Bar photos was released in book form in 2014 entitled, '' Terminal Bar: A Photographic Record of New York's Most Notorious Watering Hole.'' The bar was also featured in the 1982 novel '' The Terminal Bar''. The Terminal Bar closed in 1982. The area where the Terminal Bar formerly stood is now occupied by

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