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S & Amp G Gross Midtown West New York

Wildan 4:23:00 AM Add Comment midtown Edit

VANISHED S&G Gross pawnbrokers has been around New York City more than century. Their building on 8th Avenue and 34th Street is an ant...

Art Shop

Wildan 11:36:00 AM Add Comment midtown, upper west side Edit

VANISHING After 65 years operational, Lee's Art Shop on West 57th Street is closing sometime over the following 3 to 4 weeks. from ...

Gene's Coffee Shop

Wildan 4:57:00 AM Add Comment midtown Edit

VANISHED A few weeks ago, while wandering around the east side of midtown, I found myself for the first time in Gene's Coffee Shop on 60...

The Lambs

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The Lambs is America’s oldest professional theatrical club, founded in Manhattan in 1874. It is open to actors, writers, and other theater p...

Preview Sandwich Shop

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On West 53rd Street, under the green awning for the Hello Deli, located in the CBS building, is an old sign for a lost sandwich shop. Rupert...

Carnegie Reopens

Wildan 5:11:00 AM Add Comment midtown Edit

Last week I noted that the Carnegie Deli promised to reopen in 2016 . Who knew it would be so soon? They announced on their website and Fac...

Carnegie Deli Comeback

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Is the shuttered Carnegie Deli coming back? Reader Brian Fitzgerald shared the following via Twitter: "We would like to set the record ...

The Ziegfeld

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VANISHING By now you've probably heard the news that the Ziegfeld movie theater will be closing after 46 years. It is "not a movie...

Oyster Bar

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No, not the one in Grand Central Terminal. The other one, over on 7th Avenue and 54th Street. You might remember it was forced out of busine...

Help Jerry

Wildan 4:44:00 AM Add Comment midtown Edit

A couple of years ago, I visited Jerry Ohlinger's amazing movie material store in the Garment District. In business since 1976, it was t...

Palm For Rent

Wildan 4:29:00 AM Add Comment midtown, upper east side Edit

Back in June, I first shared the news that The Palm Restaurant, after 90 years, would likely be closing . Last month, The Real Deal confirme...

Strip Street

Wildan 4:32:00 AM Add Comment midtown Edit

Today, a repeat of an old favorite: The once wild life of 52nd Street -- speakeasies, jazz, strippers with monkeys! It was known, simply, a...

Tony's

Wildan 4:38:00 AM Add Comment midtown Edit

Like old barber shops, I love old shoe repair shops. Every time I see one that looks promisingly ancient and unchanged, I go in for a shine....

Taxi Parts

Wildan 4:26:00 AM Add Comment chelsea, hudson yards, midtown Edit

Recently, a store called Taxi Parts, Inc., moved in to the East Village . It had been up on Tenth Avenue for the past 25 years, on the groun...

Ohlinger's Movie Material Store

Wildan 4:13:00 AM Add Comment midtown Edit

VANISHING Years ago, New York City had many stores that catered to avid collectors of movie memorabilia. The most legendary were Cinemabilia...

D'Auito's Bakery

Wildan 4:40:00 AM Add Comment hell's kitchen, midtown Edit

VANISHED After nearly 80 years in business, the home of Baby Watson cheesecakes, D'Auito's bakery has closed. Lost City had the news...

Madison Ave. Baptist Parish House

Wildan 4:55:00 AM Add Comment midtown Edit

VANISHING A tipster writes in that the Parish House of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, at 30 East 31st St., "is going to be put on t...