Home - McSorley's Old Ale House, Matty Maher, an Institution at an Institution, McSorley’s, Dies at 80 As bartender, manager and owner, he helped the East Village saloon survive neighborhood blight and change its ways by admitting women and banning smoking. Matty Maher and the establishment he joined in 1964 as a bartender. He eventually became its manager, and then proprietor.Credit…Ari […].