Amid
NYC Gentrification, Subway Inn
Reappeared on 2nd Ave, Everything
For Sale
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
March 18 – As New York City
enters hyper-gentrification
with foreign investment in
Manhattan real estate left
empty, the death and quiet,
seemingly dubious, rebirth of
the Subway Inn is a story we
need to tell. Long located on
60th Street and Lexington
Avenue, the evictions of the
Subway Inn bar because a cause
celebre. The dive bar
was visited by Anthony
Bourdain and others; it was in
the Village Voice, petitions
were collected. And then it
was closed and that was that.
But on
March 18 as Inner City Press
followed the United Nations
corruption north from 42nd
Stree to Sutton Place then
west, it came upon the former
Atomic Wings location on 60th
and Second Avenue, now with
Subway Inn's neon sign on the
front. Inside, the barkeep
said it had been there for
three years, which the public
record disproves. But two
years and for what? There were
only three patrons; NCAA
basketball's March Madness was
on, and what purported to be a
Subway Inn petition on the
wall. Periscope
video here.
Was
this the perfect symbol of the
real death of New York, amid
progressive de Blasio
progressive bromides, of a new
era? Watch this site.
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