Yet they expected access to the Edge's billiard room and pool.
Tenants on the affordable side are not allowed access to any of the condos' many amenities — pools, billiard rooms and Jacuzzis, to name a few.
It reads: "Young & Schmuck -- Fine Wines, Liquors & Cigars -- Pool & Billiard Parlor".
You'll find lots of antiques, a library, a billiard room, a large pool, a poolside cafe, and a restaurant.
I aimed an etymological cushion shot at Tom Shaw, managing editor of Pool and Billiard Magazine and co-author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pool and Billiards".
Some taxes, such as those on pool and billiard parlours and on racetracks, were originally imposed as sumptuary taxes, intended to discourage such enterprises.
Features include a pool bar, billiard room, bowling alley and a nightclub, as well as a large gym and a game room for Ms. Ecclestone's boyfriend.
It contains a panelled library with well-stocked, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves; a billiard room; and a pool, around which little puffs of mist hydrate the landscaping at regular intervals.
That happened in August when a sign for the Young & Schmuck Pool and Billiard Parlor at 772 Eighth Avenue -- "Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars" -- was revealed after being hidden for more than a century by 776 Eighth Avenue.
It conflates both sides of the street into one and is punctuated with out-of-scale, out-of-place details: the cross that marks the First Street Pool and Billiard Parlor, the boxer wrapping his hands outside the First Street Boxing Gym, the cracked sidewalk littered with cigarette butts that looms above the locally fabled burrito joint Al & Bea's.
