Many decades ago, there was a bar on the corner of 46th Street, and 30th Avenue in Astoria owned by an Irish proprietor named Coffey. The establishment was named Coffey’s Corner (current location of Irish bar: The Quays). At that time, this particular section of Astoria, on the border of Woodside, was heavily populated by an Irish American community, and “Junior” was a young boy named Francis Coffey, who was nephew to the proprietor of Coffey’s Corner. Francis spent his formative years in the bar growing up, initially as a bar back, then on to becoming a bartender for his uncle.