{"id":373502,"date":"2026-10-15T02:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373502\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T02:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:04:35","slug":"last-call-for-scruffy-duffys-hells-kitchen-bar-to-close-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373502\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Call for Scruffy Duffy\u2019s \u2014 Hell\u2019s Kitchen Bar to Close in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scruffy Duffy\u2019s is calling time on its latest Hell\u2019s Kitchen chapter, announcing that November 29 will be its last call. For regulars who remember Pat Hughes presiding over the original 8th Avenue bar \u2014 and those who found their home at its more recent 10th Avenue incarnation \u2014 there are just a few more weeks to raise a glass to Scruffy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Pat-Hughes-Scruffy-Duffys_0839.jpg\" alt=\"Pat Hughes Scruffy Duffy's\" class=\"wp-image-162086\"\/>Pat Hughes can often be doing odd jobs and climbing ladders on 10th Avenue. Photo: Phil O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bar at 639 10th Avenue (between W45th\/W46th Street) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dec-iEjxOGN\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced the closure on Instagram<\/a>, thanking everyone who helped make it feel like home. \u201cIt\u2019s been a blast to be a small part of the Hell\u2019s Kitchen community,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"Phil O'Brien Portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/cropped-Phil-OBrien-Portrait-WB-scaled-1-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publisher &amp; Editor Phil O\u2019Brien is an entrepreneur and journalist. As an international photojournalist, he photographed Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana and many others. He built a successful international sports photography agency, EMPICS, that was Getty Images\u2019 major competitor in Europe when it sold. He founded a children\u2019s charity in the UK that has helped young people through sport for over 15 years. Phil has lived in New York since 2012. He founded W42ST in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Phil O&#8217;Brien\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scruffy Duffy\u2019s is calling time on its latest Hell\u2019s Kitchen chapter, announcing that November 29 will be its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,15679],"class_list":["post-373502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-whats-closing-and-closed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}