I can add a detail The Record story was missing, from my blog post today in The Sasson Report:
General Poor's Tavern
The Record's story on the closing of General Poor's Tavern on Main Street in Hackensack was missing an important detail.
"When The Record had its offices on nearby River Street, the bar was a local hang-out for reporters looking for a story tip or just a cold brew," Staff Writer Rodrigo Torrejon reported last week.
But General Poor's was far more than that: It was the place for going away parties for Record newsroom staffers who were going on to bigger and better things.
I lost track of how many of those parties I attended, but at one point in the Nineties, I just stopped going to those boozy farewells.
The Record story on General Poor's also is the first acknowledgement I've ever seen that North Jersey Media Group's decision to leave Hackensack in 2009 hurt businesses on Main Street and elsewhere in the city,