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WARNER LEROY
Fat LeRoy is in the restaurant business, and apparently what he does at night is to walk through the place after it has cleared out and eat all the leftovers. As you know, those clean plates will do it to you everytime.
Fat LeRoy is somewhere between 300 and 400 pounds. He wears circus clothes in an effort to be regarded as a showman and not just a fat slob.
"He puts on Liberace clothes," a waiter, Jose M. Abru, 28, who lives on 35th Avenue in Long Island City, said yesterday. "They sew two Liberace jackets together so he fits his big belly in," Alfredo Mora, a banquet bartender, said.
They were standing across from the entrance to Fat LeRoy's restaurant yesterday afternoon and shouting at people not to go in because they were striking the joint. The strike began six weeks ago. And for the usual reason: Fat LeRoy appears to believe in paying people in the dark. Fat LeRoy lives in 16 rooms in the famous Dakota apartment house on West 72nd Street. He seems to expect a Puerto Rican to work 48 hours and weep in gratitude on the subway home to Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn because he has a check for $l69.80. Last January, the restaurant canceled health benefits.
Fat LeRoy's restaurant is Tavern on the Green, which is on the most expensive land in the nation. It sits just inside Central Park at West 67th Street. Somehow, LeRoy has a lease that...