I’ve been past this place on Metropolitan and Hillside in Richmond Hill a number of times but never went in. Anyone know what it’s like?
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BLUE SKY: NON-BUSINESS AS USUAL
October 17, 2011The former Blue Sky Diner, 49th Avenue and 21st Street, Hunters Point, has been mostly empty beginning in the 1990s, but in 2010-2011 it took a star turn as the upscale M(agasin). Wells Restaurant, featuring haute cuisine and snobby service. In the summer of 2011, M. Wells’ owners announced they were moving out (seeking another space [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: diners Hunters Point Queens
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HINSCH’S PINCHED: Brooklyn candy store closes after 6 decades
October 4, 20111/9/13: ***HINSCH’s DOOMED AGAIN, as its new owners couldn’t make a profit.*** 10/17/11: ***HINSCH’S SAVED, as the owners of Skinflint’s on 5th will operate it.**** I’ll admit it, I had been in Hinsch’s (pronounced HINSH’S, as if the C wasn’t there), the long-lived candy store and luncheonette, on 5th Avenue between 85th and 86th Streets [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Bay Ridge diners
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LAST OF THE CHEYENNE
September 16, 2011The Cheyenne Diner began as the Market Diner at 9th Avenue and 33rd Street sometime in the early 1940s. The diner manufacturer was Paramount Modular Concepts of Oakland, NJ, in business since 1932 and one of only a handful of diner manufacturers (Diner-Mite of Atlanta, GA, De Raffele of New Rochelle, NY, and Kullman of Lebanon, NJ are among [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: diners Penn Station
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DINER AT THE END OF QUEENS. The Clinton
May 4, 2011May 2011: Having been forced out of my job by mechanization and the fanatical desire of business to maximize profits (the cry of business is that “we are not running a charity here” and my answer is, why don’t you?) I had gravitated, as I often do, toward the fetid and miserable waterways of western Queens, [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: diners Maspeth restaurants
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CHELSEA-CLINTON, Manhattan
April 12, 2011Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: diners Manhattan neon
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PAPAYA KING, 7th Avenue
December 8, 2009Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Chelsea diners Manhattan
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LAST ROUNDUP at the CHEYENNE DINER
April 6, 2008I’m not sure when I first visited the Cheyenne Diner — it must have been before ForgottenTour 12 in Hell’s Kitchen gathered there (left) in May 2003; it must have been while I worked at the World’s Biggest Store between April 2000 and October 2004. The Cheyenne is closing, at least in its present [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: diners Manhattan Penn Station
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Nothing BRIGHT (FOODS) About It: death of a diner
November 19, 2007I’ll admit it, I had never ventured into the Bright Food Shop at 8th Avenue and West 21st Street in Chelsea. An old NY Magazine review said: Sit with your morning cup of Joe and behold the construction of true huevos rancheros, with two layers of soft tortilla, two eggs, and a mass of beans, sour cream, cilantro, and [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: diners Manhattan restaurants
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MARVELOUS NIGHT for the Moondance and Victory Diners
August 1, 2007Is there anyplace more inviting than a classic railroad-car diner? It’s a matter of taste of course, in more ways than one. I’d eat in one every day, but my cholesterol is high enough as is. In future centuries, we’ll have figured out a way to make eating vegetables and incessant exercise unnecessary, but until [...]
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NOTHING COULD BE FINER: A look at NYC diners
December 12, 2001Restaurant reviews make me laugh. Especially the pictures that go with them. Who could eat the stingy portions shown? Crumbs and morsels on huge plates. And restaurant reviewers all like fish, as undercooked as possible. Don’t get your webmaster wrong. Fish has its place. Deep-fried, with plenty of batter. For those of us who think [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: diners Manhattan Queens