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Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Mory's expansion approved by city

Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, June 11, 2009

The Board of Zoning Appeals on Tuesday approved plans for the expansion of Mory's, although the requisite funds to renovate the historic eating club have yet to be raised.

The Board’s approval will allow Mory’s to make such desired renovations as allowing outdoor seating, adding a bar in the back and putting a banquet room on the second floor, architect Richard Wies said Wednesday. Wies’ firm, Gregg Wies & Gardner Architects, was hired by Mory’s to oversee the planned construction.

According to the New Haven Independent, the Mory’s expansion was approved unanimously by the...

#1 By jmdiaz10 3:26a.m. on June 14, 2009

I saw the remarks about cleaning out the basement of the Temple Bar to make room for structural work. They might find boxing gloves in there. A bunch of us had a bare-knuckle beer boxing league- couldn't do this out in the open- we had a key and set up a ring down there. Lots of betting and sidebetting. The Dean of the Graduate School got wind of it and Mory's changed the locks. I hope the new Mory's will be more secure.

#2 By jmdiaz10 9:20p.m. on June 14, 2009

You used boxing gloves in a bare-knuckle boxing league? Was that before or after you buried Lincoln in Grant's tomb?

#3 By DC '57 1:51a.m. on June 18, 2009

I should explain. Freshmen would often bring gloves, we'd take them away and beat them silly, 2 or 3 on 1. Nail the gloves to the wall.

#4 By Tyler 8:27a.m. on June 19, 2009

First rule about Mory's: Nobody Talks About Mory's.

By the way, DC '57, while you were down there, how did you deal with the albino alligators George H. W. Bush was raising in the Mory's basement?

#5 By jmdiaz10 6:49p.m. on June 22, 2009

Yawn. Spare us the stories of your undergrad machismo you dinosaur.

#6 By dinodefender 10:11a.m. on July 21, 2009

Yawn. Spare me your sexless nonchalance you hipster.

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