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In Short Order

The coffee may have gone cold, but a waitress at a neighborhood mainstay recalls her time doing duty

By Erasmo Guerra | September 30,2009
Virginia Bartlett, whose proud cleavage and ageless figure embodies the classic glamour of a Latina Sophia Lauren, swears incredible things happened at the Studio Coffee Shop in Hell’s Kitchen. The 68-year-old blond Puerto Rican spent over a decade as the coffee shop’s sole waitress and when she walks down the street she’s still recognized by many. The place, which was no bigger and just as grimy as a doughnut cart, once stood on the ground floor of the Film Center Building on Ninth Avenue between West 44th and 45th streets and has since been transformed into Nizza, an Italian-French restaurant. more
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