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Nothing says Manhattan like Grand Central Terminal – and the Oyster Bar with its succulent seafood, which has brightened commuters’ days for a century.
Are its charms transferable to Park Slope, to a block where there’s no massive transportation hub nearby?
If anyone should know, it would be Jonathan Young, a former Sloper who now lives in Greenwood Heights. For a decade, he was the general manager of the famed oyster palace inside the famed train station. For starters, he knows not to try to create a clone of the original restaurant.
“It’s an iconic piece of Americana,” he said. “If you try to exactly copy it, you’re fooling yourself. You can’t match it.”