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Robert "Bobby" Torre


MitchW

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Longtime manager of JG Melon, at 81.

Probably not known to many, unless, that is, you ever frequented JG Melon - the real one, up on 74th and 3rd.  We lived around the corner for quite a few years, and enjoyed burgers and booze there back in the day.  Cottage fries, too, on a good night.

Bobby knew everyone - maybe not by name, but he sure recognized us when we walked in - and waited!  I don't think they make many like this any more. RIP.

Grub Street's obit, though I don't know if you can read it unless you subscribe to NY Mag.

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If You’ve Been to JG Melon, You Knew Bobby Torre

Torre spent pretty much his whole life on the Upper East Side. Born on January 23, 1944, he was raised in the neighborhood, where his mother worked at the Mary Manning Walsh Home. Many customers at JG Melon knew him for decades, but none as long as his childhood friends Margie Saglimbene and Shaun Young, who both joined him at Melon. Saglimbene says they met in settlement clubs, which were started to offer social services to the poor. “We were street kids, we grew up poor,” says Young, adding that their group of friends became family as they got older. “He was just an exceptional person coming from where he grew up, I have to say that.”

 

 

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