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Seeking John Morrisey’s Ghost at the Adelphi

I am sleeping, I am told, in John Morrissey’s room. It’s on the second floor of the Adelphi Hotel, opening on one side to the grand Adelphi hallway, on the other to the iconic second floor piazza, three stories high, above street level, overlooking, but unobserved by, Broadway. I am told that Morrissey sat here…

September 14, 2012 in Brooklyn Backstretch.

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