New York's oldest bar never went dark—not during Prohibition, when it hid behind a flower shop façade near Tammany Hall, not during the 2003 blackout, not once since 1864. O. Henry penned "The Gift of the Magi" in the second booth from the front at what was then Healy's Café, and the original forty-foot rosewood bar and tin ceiling remain untouched, a Gramercy Park anchor where the past still pours.
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