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Town & Country Lounge, the Mayflower Hotel’s historic bar, will be serving its last drinks tonight. The bar, open in 1948, has served drinks and food to everyone from J. Edgar Hoover to Eliot Spitzer to Sam Donaldson.

The bar is closing to make way for the expansion of the menswear store Thomas Pink. Another to-be-named restaurant and lounge will open in the space in the Mayflower that the Pink store vacated.

The bartender, Sambonn Lek, who has manned the Town & Country bar for more than 30 years, will call out last call at 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning. Lek, known for his magic tricks, like making $20 bills levitate, is not only a wonderful drink maker, but the epitome of the classy, friendly bartender. Lek will move on the to new lounge as its bartender once it opens.