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…
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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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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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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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1/9/13: ***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…