 PLOT: SPOILER: When the bartender goes home after the saloon closes  for the night, the New York streets are deserted and the subway  platform is virtually empty, exactly as youd expect for such an  early hour of the morning. Yet despite when he is struck by a car  upon arriving home soon afterward, the sidewalk outside his  apartment is filled with at least a dozen people standing around  chatting, sitting on the stoops, etc.