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The neon lights at the Times Square watering hole Smith’s Bar will be going out for good Thursday after 60 years.

The restaurant at 44th Street and Eighth Avenue is being forced out because of a rent hike.

“I’m ready to cry over this,” said Bernadette Marx, a patron of the eatery for a decade.

A bartender said staffers were told last week that they would be out of a job by Thursday. A manager did not return a request for comment.

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