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In late April, when the Durst Organization sold the building that houses the legendary Times Square bar Jimmy's Corner, the bar's owner Adam Glenn, son of the eponymous Jimmy, thought that the sale might lead to a fresh start with their new landlord, allow the saloon to remain where it has been since 1971.
Back in December, Glenn sued the Durst Organization for discrimination and fraud, claiming the developers tricked his aging, ailing father into agreeing to predatory terms in a series of lease modifications prior to his father's death in 2020. (The entire situation was complicated by the fact that Jimmy, by multiple accounts, was at one time extremely close with the Durst family.) While the Durst Organization had been trying since 2023 to evict the bar, perhaps these new owners could be persuaded to preserve it.
"I was hopeful we could sit down and have a conversation," Glenn said of his new landlords, Ben-Josef Holdings Group. Unfortunately for those who love Jimmy's Corner, that does not appear to be the case.