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22 January 2010

This Week on Lost City



Frankie & Johnnie's loses its iconic bar; Biography Bookshop moves and changes its name; the new Arby's inside the landmarked Gage & Tollner finally opens; an obscure Coney Island landmark with soon be flattered by the City; They're messing with Caffe Reggio; a Carroll Gardens deli scrubbed itself free of character.  

Posted by Brooks of Sheffield at 5:04 PM

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I have lived in New York City since 1988 and earn my bread as a writer. I began this blog in January 2006. Beyond that, don't be so nosy. "I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism." —Roberto Rossellini
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One of the old book jackets lining the walls of Chumley's. Eternal Shame on Bloomberg, the City Fathers, and the powers that be that this cultural landmark has STILL not been saved and reopened.
 


The late, great McHale's, the death of which inspired the birth of this blog.