Exactly one year ago, on a brisk October evening, a few hundred people gathered on a stretch of sidewalk on Grand Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown, taking in a performance by the rollicking violinist Adrian Jusdanis of the band New Thousand . Riveting as he was, Jusdanis was only the warmup for the main act: the reopening of Beverly’s , the beloved artist-run bar first established in 2012, whose original location at 21 Essex Street closed amid the pandemic in 2020. Though there had been temporary spaces and traveling exhibitions since, a permanent home had long remained elusive.

So when Beverly’s finally moved into 297 Grand Street, founder Leah Dixon wanted a party—of course. But she knew there would also be some grief: for the old location, for how much New York had changed since C

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