The beer was expensive, but the place itself deser...

The beer was expensive, but the place itself deserves 5 stars.

Being a visitor and having just had dinner with friends, I wandered aimlessly around to find a suitable place to have a quiet beer. A fellow patron asked me where I was from after calling a guy "sir", expecting me to be southern (I am). "I'm from right here," he said, pointing at the ground. He has lived across the street from the World Trade Center in a building that remained standing after 9/11. Being from a small town, I don't really expect residents of large cities to feel a deep-rooted pride for where they live. This guy did; his face told me what he didn't have to say. The event that shook the entire world happened across the street from him. O'Hara's taught me that a city doesn't have to be small to have a community.