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...for broadway fans back open

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the iconic restaurant joe allen open at the top of the hour to silly

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...peres reports on what it means to the theater and restaurant industries.

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Taking a walk down restaurant row one forty...street you still

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see for rent signs and sugar businesses but there are signals that the

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theatre district is coming back to life again joe allen

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an iconic restaurant on the block reopens tonight for the second time since

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the pandemonium began let's get back to work julie cronin...the owner of joe

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allen named after her late father like many other eateries

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nearby for now the restaurant is only doing dinner service beginning at five pm but

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...broadway's slowly reopened...plan to expand the ours is

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...it sounds the show must go on, you know, and,

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we're just thrilled to have people back at work restaurant tour

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joe allen died back in february of this year at the age of eighty seven

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his namesake eatery opened its doors decades ago in nineteen sixty five

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since then it's been a staple in this neighborhood for tours locals

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even celebrities his legacy really was to let people have fun,

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come on, and, have some fun back a located a few doors down

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reopened in february executive chef bill gallagher is confident business

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will bounce back completely when feeders open up at a

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hundred percent capacity which is the theater we neither one...come back out and support

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us and gallagher says that support translates to more business which is

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just what restaurant row needs it just kind of felt normal I like

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...normal again it's exciting to be there I feel so

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good diners in the area all agree supporting local businesses is

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what they plan to do on restaurant row delia peres cbs

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...tells us based on reservations are expecting a huge crowd tonight and

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reminder new code guidelines

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...vaccinations...for all restaurant customers...indoors.