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Advertisement In the 56 years since Deirdre Cusack called the Green Park Hotel home, she has never forgotten the brown paper that covered the cellar windows. It had been there ever since the Japanese tried to invade Sydney Harbour in 1942, carefully placed to block out lights across a city fearing submarine attack. The Green Park hotel in 1954. The image feels a world away from the vibrant inner city watering hole the Greenie has become in 2020. Today it is both a haven and a refuge for Sydney s LGBTQI community - more than just a bar, as one columnist said. On Sunday night the 127-year-old hotel will call last drinks, after it was sold to the surrounding St Vincent s Hospital to become a mental health clinic. ....