Kathleen Horan
Kathleen Horan has worked at WNYC Radio since 2001 and been a reporter in the newsroom since 2006.
Hungry New Yorkers Say Goodbye to the Cheyenne Diner
Sunday, April 06, 2008
New York, NY –
The Cheyenne Diner has been on Ninth Avenue and 33rd Street for 68 years. But today's the last day to have a lumberjack breakfast in the 20-by-100-foot railroad car eatery, before a nine-story apartment complex replaces it.
The place has been packed with customers who are saying goodbye, like Michael Cantor:
CANTOR: I've been coming here... I feel like the old-time New York... I've been coming here seven years, and I get the buffalo burger or the tuna melt, and its one of the last vestiges of the old '50s diners. Now I know why it's crowded. I can't belive it.
REPORTER: Landlord George Papas says he's talking to preservationists about trying to save the diner. After the Moondance Diner downtown closed last year to make way for luxury condos, the 1930s-era structure was moved to Wyoming.
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