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A Woman to Know: Eve Adams

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Julia Carpenter
Jun 26, 2019
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Men are admitted but not welcome. — sign outside Eve's Hangout

(image via Wikimedia Commons — Eve on the right)


Eve named her legendary bar after herself: Eve's Hangout.

The name had special meaning to her already. When she immigrated to New York from Poland, Chawe Zocslewer changed her name: from Chawe to Eve, sometimes "Eve Kotchever" and other times…

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