Diners

From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click any image for a much larger view.

[Club Diner, 6103 Flushing Avenue, Queens.]

[Eagle Diner, 1855 1st Avenue, Manhattan.]

[Michael's Diner, 3216-20 Steinway Street, Queens.]

[Pall Mall Diner, 14121 Rockaway Boulevard, Queens. The lettering on the car suggests the Pall Mall cigarette pack. And there’s a candy store right next door.]

I think of a line from Ron Padgett’s memoir of the poet Ted Berrigan, after a recounting of cafes and diners in Tulsa and Manhattan: “Every last one of these cafes is now gone.”

Thanks, Brian.

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[I quoted from Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1993).]