When I started my Great Good Places of Brooklyn series in 2013, Sunny’s Bar was the first one I chose to draw. Sunny’s feels and looks like nowhere else you’ve ever been. It’s perfect. The staff is cool and the light streams in, milking up the dusty air with its late afternoon yellow rays and there’s jazz playing — not on Spotify or Pandora, but on vinyl, and there’s all these old Budweiser lamps and ancient maritime stuff on the walls from when the place was really a stevedore bar, just a couple blocks from actual working tough-guy Brooklyn docks. At Sunny’s you really feel you’re someplace special. People love it for a reason, and Sunny himself was the cornerstone of it. From the maybe five times I met him I can state that he was a loving and light-hearted guy, and I’m glad we roamed the earth — and Red Hook — at the same time, if only briefly. He made Brooklyn and the entire universe better with his light, and with luck, his spirit will resonate for a long time.

Sunny’s Bar Original Art For Sale

You can buy the Sunny’s Bar original art on my site. It’s 7.5″ by 10″, drawn in pen and black India ink on Borden & Riley Paris Illustration Paper. This is one of the illustrations included in my book Great Good Places of New York, to be published by Rizzoli in 2018. If you’re a fan of excellent places to hang out — bastions of semi-sanity — in this huge, crazy city, then you’ll love the book. If you dig Red Hook Brooklyn, or have a soft spot in your heart for Sunny’s, then you might like to have this original art. Once it’s gone, it’s gone….