• Ruby’s Bar & Grill

  1213 Boardwalk

  The photos of old-time Coney Island that hang behind the 45-foot bar aren’t gratuitous: They were collected by the late Rubin Jacobs, who went from peddling knishes on the beach as a kid to presiding over a place where countless boozers sucked down clams and enjoyed the boardwalk scene that Jacobs called �the elixir of life.� From April to November, when Ruby’s is open, octogenarian regulars sing along with Sinatra and Perry Como on the jukebox and shoot the sea-breeze with the gruff porters, some of whom have filled plastic cups here for more than half a century, as curious tourists and refugees from the Mermaid Parade look on.

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