The new restaurant moving in, we learned last year, will be Friedman's Lunch. What will Friedman's do to the space? Reader Shade took a recent peek through the window and sent in this shot.
As you can see, the place has been white-washed. No more pink and blue. And, from a distance, those columns look suspiciously smooth--has all the antique filigree been scraped away?
Here's what the columns used to look like--they date back a long time:
As for Friedman's Lunch, I've said it here before, but it's worth repeating. In case you think some Friedman family runs the place, think again. There are no Friedmans here.
According to the restaurant’s website, the name is a tribute to Milton Friedman. He was the modern-day father of neoliberalism (which is neither new nor liberal). The man who advised the murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet to “shock” the people of Chile with radical economics. The free-market fundamentalist whose theories became policy under Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, leading to vast inequality, the destruction of the environment, Donald Trump, and pretty much every other nightmare of modern life.
Previously:
News breaks about Cafe Edison's forced closure
Over 600 supporters come to our first of many Lunch Mobs
Local politicians and Mayor Bill de Blasio join the fight to Save Cafe Edison
Big rally and press conference at Cafe Edison
The last day announcement
Cafe Edison Closes
3 comments:
POTENT research here about the non-existent Friedman Family and the roots of the real Friedman that serves as model. Real estate is very real, very global and never ever about modesty.
"There Ain't No Such thing as a Free Lunch" was popularized by Robert A. Heinlein under the acronym TANSTAAFL, pronounced tanstaffel. Although the phrase goes way back, Heinlein popularized it in his 1966 novel "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress." Friedman's use came over a decade later:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain%27t_no_such_thing_as_a_free_lunch
You should take a look at what they've done to the Edison's south lobby passageway (the one that was in The Godfather)
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