When you've been in business close to sixty years, as Jerry Feld has at Club 404 (he bought the bar/restaurant before he was even old enough to have a liquor license), the people who come to your place are like family, and the people who work for you are like family (hell, a lot of them -- like his wife, Harriet, and his son and daughter, are family).
Club 404 lost a member of the family two weeks ago: Steve Clark, who'd been a cook at the restaurant at 404 Broadway for 25 years, died on March