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The Scene at Clara’s

Catch March Madness & make sure to order the wings.

The Scene at Clara’s 12

The Scene at Clara’s

Catch March Madness & make sure to order the wings.

The Scene at Clara’s

Clara’s occupies the cavernous ground-floor of a retail space plopped between a dentist’s office and a gated alleyway on Wilson Avenue, announced by way of  its name, scrabbled in cursive above the door. It has been there most of a decade, where it had first opened as Eastland’s, remarkable for its “reasonably priced drinks and tasty fare” and was described once by a writer at Vanity Fair as “an upscale pub in Bushwick” in a scene report on a meet-up of frustrated Bernie Sanders supporters in 2016.

“Originally there were just two TVs,” recalls Eric Borg, who had renamed the bar Clara’s in 2017, after his daughter. Now there are, by his own count, at least 14…

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