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    SKYLINE DINER 2022

    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2022 13 comments

    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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    EMPIRE DINER AND KOBRA, Chelsea

    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2019 0 comment

    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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    MARKET DINER, 1940

    by Kevin Walsh December 29, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 29, 2018 1 comment

    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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    SKYLINE DINER, Long Island City

    by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2018 3 comments

    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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    ASTORIA SWEEP

    by Kevin Walsh May 27, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh May 27, 2018 6 comments

    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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    WHITE MANA, Jersey City

    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2016 2 comments

    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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    GRIMM BUILDING, Upper West Side

    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2015 2 comments

    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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    SQUARE DINER, Tribeca

    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh October 5, 2015 5 comments

    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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    (FORMER) WYTHE DINER, Williamsburg

    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2013 5 comments

    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…

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    HECTOR’S of the Meatpacking

    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh October 16, 2013 2 comments

    Hector’s Cafe, on Washington and Little West 12th Street, like your webmaster has seen a great deal of changes and remained pretty much the same. When the diner first opened…

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    HONEST JOHN’S

    by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2012 2 comments

    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

    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2011 1 comment

    The 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…

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