WORD comes that Smith’s Bar, the longtime dive with the fantastical neon signs on 8th Avenue and West 44th has gone the way of the dodo and will soon be…
Hells Kitchen
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THE Market Diner, manufactured by the De Raffele Diner Company and opened at 11th Avenue and West 43rd Street in 1964, closed at the end of the business day on…
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Here’s a placid scene at #605 West 42nd Street in 1940, just west of 11th Avenue in Hells Kitchen. Well into the 1980s, this was a somewhat sketchy part of…