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    Alex Day

    Owner, Death & Co; COO, Gin & Luck

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    Portrait of Alex Day

    Portrait of Alex Day

    i. Biography

    He has built his work around the bar, and the standard he applies there is plain: judgment, pace, and attention all carry equal weight. Alex Day puts it bluntly — “I think everyone is ultimately responsible for their own decisions.” That directness matches the way the room is read and managed: without sentiment, without excess, with each choice left to stand on its own. At a Glance. New York sports is the specialty, and that narrow brief defines the bar work Alex Day does at Death & Co. Specificity is the point.

    A focused lane asks for discipline, and the work at Death & Co stays inside that frame: details handled with intention, not noise, and the bar left to carry the emphasis rather than decoration. The bar rewards flourish, but this approach stays with responsibility instead. Alex Day treats the room as a place where decisions accumulate, and where reading the moment matters as much as shaping it. With New York sports as the specialty, the work becomes precise by design, built from focus rather than sprawl. At Death & Co, that precision has a setting that does not need to announce itself.

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    In Their Words “I think everyone is ultimately responsible for their own decisions.”

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    • What is Alex Day's current role?

      As of 2026, Alex Day is Bartender.

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