Loycent Gordon, the CEO and owner of Historic Neir's Tavern, is a dynamic and inspiring speaker with a remarkable story saving and restoring one of America's oldest taverns when it was first threatened to close in 2009.

This achievement catapulted him into the local and national spotlight, earning recognition from esteemed publications such as NY Times, CNN, ABC News, NBC, Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, NY Daily News, NY Post, and Entrepreneur magazine.

10 Years later he was faced with a sudden triple rent hike when the lease expired, he rallied the community & stakeholders and once again saved the tavern in January of 2020.

Historic Neir’s Tavern is now twice listed in the United States Congressional Record and one of the first taverns in America to have a street co-named in its honor, “Neir’s Tavern Way”.

 He has been honored with numerous leadership awards including recently Business Person Of The Year Award In Queens, NY.

Aiming to give back to the hospitality industry Loycent accepted the invitation as an Executive board member of NYC Hospitality Alliance, NYC’s largest hospitality advocacy organization representing thousands of NYC restaurants.

Loycent hopes to bring Neir’s Tavern to it’s 200th year through lessons from Community-Driven Leaders Building Multi-Million Dollar Brands on “The Community CEO” Podcast & Newsletter.