The Metropolitan section of the August 16, 2009, issue of The New York Times includes a review of Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People.

Mr. Josephson’s voice comes through, gentle, passionate, occasionally larger than life, as when he archly describes his decision to open a branch of Cafe Society on East 58th Street: “I was still heavily in debt when I made up my mind that I’m the right man in the wrong place. Barney Josephson is not for Greenwich Village… I’m not a Village character… I’m for the chic, smart crowd Uptown. They want a guy like me.”