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Byline: STEPHANIE LACAVA editor: Valerie Steiker
Keith McNally has a gift for creating New York establishmentsBalthazar, Pastisout of thin air, but his newest venture has been around since 1937. Back then, MINETTA TAVERN was a West Village joint visited by the likes of Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway. When the space at MacDougal Street and Minetta Lane went up for sale, McNally knew it had to be his. "It seemed irresistibly cozy," he says. Instead of performing one of his usual wholesale transformations, he is leaving the interior mostly intact: "It was so ...