” With the closing of the Oak Room—a serenely elegant hostel for the American songbook in the one-time home of the Algonquin Roundtable—New York will have a great deal less of what the venue presented: that is, not just refined music, but symbolism of the durability of refinement.”
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-famous-door/100336/oak-room-new-york-algonquin-cabaret-jazz
Planet of the Blind 