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The Brazilians say every cigar goes up in smoke, and at One Wall Street Court, the boxes once full of pungent leaf are gathering dust.
It's been a year since J&R Discount Cigars, a massive store seemingly custom-built for the massive appetites of traders, rolled up shop and moved out. It's not hard to guess why-bummed-out no-bonus bankers might be giving the Hennessy and Bahia Belicosos a miss. Many Wall Streeters moved to midtown or Jersey over the last two years in the wake of the bombing. And Mayor Bloomberg's made it mighty hard to smoke, in New York of all places.
J&R's choice downtown spot-down the block from the Stock Exchange, the reconstituted financial district legend Delmonico's and Harry's on Hanover Square-was truly the Toys-R-Us of tobacco. Cigar aficionados walked into the store up an apron of a dozen stairs off the street, like into a church....