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[[Image:Roberts_Lounge.jpg|thumb|Site of Robert's Lounge, when it was turned into a church.]]
'''Robert's Lounge''' was a bar that was owned by gangster [[Jimmy Burke]] on 114-45 Lefferts Boulevard in [[South Ozone Park, Queens]] from 1957 to January 1978 following the murder of [[Martin Krugman]] when police surveillance sparked from the [[Lufthansa heist]] was too intense for them to conduct their criminal activities. It was next to the [[Van Wyck Expressway]] and within driving distance of [[JFK Airport]] Kennedy Air Cargo Center, [[Aqueduct Race Track]], [[Paul Vario]]'s office in a trailer on Flatlands Avenue at the "''Bargain Auto Junkyard''", and the [[Queens County, New York]] [[court]]s in [[Kew Gardens, Queens]] where [[the Vario Crew]] would receive their court trial postponements. It was used as the hijacking headquarters.
The "front man" who managed the day-to-day operations of the bar was [[Richard Eaton]] who was murdered in 1979 by Burke. It had three card tables, a casino craps table and was populated with enough [[bookmaker]]s and [[loan shark]]s to cover all the action in [[Queens]]. It employed barmaids who were known to drink [[Sambuca]] in the morning hours while working. [[Parnell Edwards]] played [[blues-rock]] at the bar regularly, every Saturday and Sunday. The basement would be so packed with boxes of stolen goods that there was hardly enough room to play cards. A [[bartender]] that regularly worked at the bar was [[Michael "Spider" Gianco]] who was later shot to death in the basement by [[Thomas DeSimone]] over an insult. Robert's Lounge would be replaced as [[the Vario Crew]] headquarters by a classier night club owned by [[Vincent Asaro]].
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