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Abe’s Pagoda is Not Celebrating Valentine’s Day

"Valentine's Day is for children. Bars are for adults," says the owner of one bar on Wyckoff Avenue.

Abe's Pagoda

Abe’s Pagoda is Not Celebrating Valentine’s Day

"Valentine's Day is for children. Bars are for adults," says the owner of one bar on Wyckoff Avenue.

Abe’s Pagoda is Not Celebrating Valentine’s Day

Abe’s Pagoda is not celebrating Valentine’s Day. The local bar says they are deliberately not hosting a “lover’s night,” playing any romantic music or promoting a holiday they are very much not taking seriously. In fact, the bar is doing the exact opposite– it’s hosting an anti-Valentine’s Day event.

Every year on February 14th, the bar’s logic goes, there is a significant amount of pressure to find a date or be stay by yourself and contemplate being single. Call…

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