He was the king of the Lower East Side.” Hank Penza, the owner of the East Village's legendary, now-closed dive Mars Bar , passed away on Thursday, October 29. The news trickled out earlier this week through a private Facebook group of nostalgic regulars and former bartenders who worked there . Mars Bar was, of course, a seminal place in the history of the East Village, an almost cartoonishly gritty watering hole deeply entrenched in the city's punk history.
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