So the word has come down that another NYC classic diner, the Neptune, at Astoria Boulevard and 31st Street, will close at the end of business on July 28, 2024.…
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Is 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…
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I was thinking of West Maspeth, a part of town few but its inhabitants give a second thought, specifically the region just east of the Long Island Rail Road Montauk…
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EVERY few years I check in on what’s happening with the Skyline Diner at the Hunters Point Avenue #7 train at 49th Avenue and 21st Street. You may think a…
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The Empire was created by the Fodero Dining Car Company in the 1940s and renovated into a haute-cuisine restaurant in 1979. A stainless steel model of the Empire State Building was…
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Here’s a photo from the NYC Municipal Archives of the Market Diner on the NW corner of 9th Avenue and West 33rd Street. At the time, the diner occupied the…
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It’s a shame to see a classic chrome diner sitting empty and going to waste, but that’s exactly what has happened at 21-17 49th Avenue adjacent to the Sunnyside railroad…
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On a hot day in May I set out to visit most of Astoria’s historical spots and found most of them. I began at the LIRR station in Woodside and…
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Those of you who follow the Kevin J. Walsh facebook page know that I spent much of the year working for a publisher in Hoboken. I spent precious little time…
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You don’t see a lot of woodframe buildings in upper Manhattan, especially with some of their roofline decorations still intact. In fact it’s illegal to build woodframe buildings in Manhattan,…
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Classic, railway-car shaped diners have become scarce in Manhattan (and to a lesser degree other boroughs) since the Bloomberg Era ushered in Luxury City. Property owners and developers look with…
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The old Wythe Diner, Wythe Avenue and North 3rd in the Willieburg, still outwardly showing every bit of its 1952 Mountain View Diner Company exterior, has been operated under many…