Times Squares last dive bar fights for life against Durst Organization: Were still a slice of old New York

He’s not going to take a dive.The owner of Jimmy’s Corner — Times Square’s last remaining dive bar — is fighting to keep his father’s boxing-themed watering hole alive against a highly personal attack from its bigwig landlord.Adam Lee Glenn, 44, sued the Durst Organization last week to prevent the real estate giant from evicting the West 44rd Street bar after more than 50 years in business.The suit contends Durst officials looking to sell the building want to declare the lease void because the bar’s namesake Jimmy Glenn died in 2020 — arguably a betrayal of the close friendship he shared with the company’s former Seymour Durst.“I sort of always knew that one day — and I hoped it was far away — like progress is going to come,” Adam Glenn said.

“But I hoped that when it did, it would come in the right way and that they would sort of have the grace and the decency to do this in a way that works for all of us.“I feel like they’ve taken a position that they don’t need to do that.And so, you know, I took the position that if you’re not going to do the decent thing, then I’m going to fight you.”The hole-in-the-wall was opened in the early 1970s by Jimmy Glenn, a Hall of Fame boxing trainer who stuffed its narrow walls with memorabilia from the sweet science.He also fought against the “Bad Old Days” seediness of Times Square, then replete with sex shops, prostitutes and gangsters.

“I’m proud that I still get people who come, like, who used to live in the building next door,” Adam Glenn said.“And they said, ‘I lived in Times Square in the 80s and the only reason I felt safe was because I knew Jimmy was here.The only reason this block felt okay was because your family watched out for us.'”As Times Square went from tawdry to touristy over the decades, Jimmy’s Corner remained an oasis for locals and travelers alike who are thirsty for $3 beer and a taste of a bygone era.“Jimmy’s Bar is one of the last legs that r...