Home Sweet Home … of Dodgers fans’ once-beloved Red Hook bar, Bud and Packy’s, is being renovated
Eye On Real Estate: Structural repair starting at Richards Street house
Bud and Packy’s, a bar dear to Dodgers fans and Red Hook old-timers, is getting a much-needed renovation – or at least, the eye-catching building that houses it is.
Restoration work recently started at 199 Richards St. – where Dodgers fans mourned the team’s October 1951 loss of the National League pennant. They put a headless effigy of manager Chuck Dressen in the front window of Bud Fischer’s and Packy Laffan’s bar for all the world to see, with the mocking sign “Dressen No Head” next to it.
Dressen had put Ralph Branca into the game in the ninth inning – and the relief pitcher was scored on with a home run that cost the Dodgers the pennant.