Diary of a recovery: City Heights bar owner doesn't live to see return of crowds
Print Brooklyn Bar & Grill in City Heights buzzed with patrons Thursday evening, the kind of scene its owner, Bill Lutzius, had eagerly anticipated for the past year. Early on COVID-19 forced business owners to lay off longtime bartenders and wait staff, scraping by on government assistance until life could return to normal. That day now appears fast approaching, but Lutzius won’t see it. Last week, he was found at his Mission Hills home, dead at age 63 of an apparent heart attack. “We thought we had more time with him,” said a teary-eyed Denise Larson, who helped organize a celebratio...
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