So when I took this photo, it was a little past 11 pm on a Tuesday night, about four hours into covering a community board liquor license meeting for Eater. To say that these meetings are soul crushing is putting it mildly. Am I doing a service for Eater NY readers? Man, I hope so because I’d hate to think my suffering went for naught.

If you’d life to see the post I ended up writing for Eater NY from my covering the meeting, it’s here.

This photo was taken on November 9, 2010.