The Empire Diner launches its official Goodbye page.
Ghost signs across the blogosphere. [CR]
...as this weekend an old Coca-Cola sign in Soho gets covered in a drug-hazed flip-flop:
my flickr
The B&H gets new, old-looking, not bad signage. [EVG]
As the subway swells: "There was enormous growth at the Bowery station on the Lower East Side." [NYT]
Prankster sticks a Target logo on Fairey's Houston mural. [ANY]
Cheyenne, now the Empire. Maybe it'll end up in Sheboygan.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the Empire will remain in place, but be run by the Coffee Shop people instead.
ReplyDeleteFriends and I were finishing dinner at the Empire when the '77 blackout hit.
ReplyDeleteThere are days when I feel like the new city has completely swallowed my past. It's too weird.
was that coke sign on west broadway and grand?
ReplyDeleteyes, i think that was the spot.
ReplyDeleteI am so sad that the Empire will soon be no more. I wish someone would buy it and keep it going right where it is!
ReplyDeleteI saw some young guys playing acoustic guitars in a quite lovely mash-up of hip hop and rock the other day on the street at a street fair (they call themselves "Earthtone"- I'm not connected with them in any way). It's things like that that give me hope that the city is still "real". Sigh.