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Vanishing New York

VANISHED After 62 years, Record Mart, " the oldest record store in Manhattan ," has closed. photo: Jesse Jarnow Untapped Ci...

When the great Colony Music was forced to shutter in 2012 by a massive rent hike , after 60 years in Times Square, its space in the Brill B...

After going , going , going , Show World is so very gone. On 8th Avenue near 42nd Street, the buildings that made up Show World and its ne...

When the beloved Hell's Kitchen bar McHale's was forced to close in 2006 and replaced by a luxury condo tower, New Yorkers wept. In ...

The surviving peep shows at the margins around Times Square keep vanishing. Yesterday I reported on the demise of old Show World . There...

VANISHED Last year, Richard Basciano, "New York’s former prince of porn," died, leaving behind the Show World building at 42nd S...

VANISHING B.B. King's blues club on 42nd Street is closing at the end of April. In a press release , they wrote: "Despite man...

Filmmaker Dustin Cohen has made a poignant short film about the dying soul of New York with one of the last of the original East Village boh...

VANISHED Just a couple of months ago, I wrote about the sudden disappearance of the Mayfair Barber Shop and the move of one of its barber...

The fifth location of Friedman's has now opened in the space that long held the beloved Cafe Edison, which was forced to close in 2014 ...

Author and musician Josh Alan Friedman was working for Screw magazine, covering the Times Square beat through the late 1970s and early 80s,...

Now and then, against my better judgment, I walk by the shell of the once great Cafe Edison to see how the renovations are coming along. T...

The heart of old Music Row has been just been cleared for demolition. Fast Company reports: "The former site of Manny’s Music at...