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PHOTOS BY LUCY HAW THORNE
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Good Night Sonny was the second bar that the Endless Hospitality team opened after their first cocktail bar, The Wayland was a huge success in 2012. Good Night Sonny opened its doors in 2015. The Wayland was created to embody partners Jason Mendenhall and Robert Ceraso’s idea of a perfect party thrown in a country house with all your friends invited. Inventive cocktails, food all night, live music and a feeling of escape from the city around you. Good Night Sonny was a follow up that was created to contrast the Wayland. Instead of an escape from the city, GNS was created to embrace all the best aspects of a classic New York tavern. Located on one of the East Village’s most high profile corners on Saint Marks Place, the bar quickly became a meeting place
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for neighbors, friends and New York’s restaurant industry. GNS is a lively and energetic party every night. Starting at happy hour when guests line up early to have access to a rotating list of 12 to 14 oysters and ending late at night when groups of restaurant workers from all over the city come together for cocktails and late night meals to wind down after long shifts of their own. The bar is overseen by partner Pete Canny, who not only curates the ever changing cocktail and food programs but also the Hip-Hop heavy play list. Mr. Canny and his amazing staff make everyone feel like a regular… from their first visit to their hundredth. In March of 2020, like all the rest of New York City, GNS had to go into shutdown. By then Mr. Canny, Mr. Mendenhall and Mr. Ceraso had four locations open and were working on 2 more. Endless Hospitality Group employed over 100 people at that
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