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Plans to move the old Cheyenne Diner from its current location near Penn Station to a new home in Red Hook have fallen through, as many feared last week. Michael O’Connell, son of Red Hook developer Greg O'Connell, who bought the old prefab gem after it closed last April to make way for a condo, says it's too big to transport over the East River bridges. O'Connell considered moving it by barge, but that "proved 3 times as costly as traditional figures a year ago," according to a press release from Michael Perlman, a New Yorker who's become The Fixer when it comes to relocating doomed diners.
Perlman believes the best route towards the diner’s future salvation is the George Washington Bridge, and is hoping some Garden State entrepreneur will step up and buy the Cheyenne, which he says is "the LAST streamlined railway car-inspired diner" in Mid-Manhattan. Perlman adds: "While the Cheyenne can potentially land a good home out of state, many patrons are praying that a NY-based buyer will contact the Committee at unlockthevault@hotmail.com, so it can ideally remain closer to its roots than the Moondance Diner in WY."
George Papas, the owner of the property—who may be the last developer in New York who thinks building a nine-story condo is a good idea right now—says that if the thing isn't off his land by the end of the month he's calling in the wrecking ball. But wait! Couldn't they get it to Red Hook via Jersey by taking the Goethals Bridge to Staten Island, then the Verrazano to Brooklyn? Ah, but that Goethals toll costs a fortune.
Photo courtesy Goggla.
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I'd like to see this on top of my office building - it wouldn't even have to leave the island.
I was in Papas' Skylight the other day. It seats more people than the Cheyenne, which is apparently why he shut it down.
All part of the west side gentrification program along with the High Life, ah, High Line, and the luxe buildings accompanying it.
'Blighted' has been redefined in recent years by developers; it now means anywhere where the middle class, and their annoying attachments to car washes, grocery stores, walkup apartment buildings, and diners are located.
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Speak on, good sir. It's the same story here in Chicago. And each time I read one of these stories about another loss or potential loss (or "facadectomy" for that matter) I get a little more pissed. I'm sorry to hear about the Cheyenne. Like you say, this is about so much more than the building.
Notre Dame Cathedral would be labelled "blighted" or not up to code and demolished to make room for condos if these idiots had their way.
The Supreme Court's last ruling on eminent domain basically put an end to the concept of private property rights for anybody but the very wealthy and politically connected.
It could get to Brooklyn via New Jersey and Staten Island. Sure it would be more work, but it can be done.
Helicopter?
Just dismantle the damn thing and truck the bits and pieces to Red Hook to reassemble. How hard is that?
Exactly - that's how they built them after all.
I miss old NY
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"who may be the last developer in New York who thinks building a nine-story condo is a good idea right now"
he must be crazy if he thinks he'll be able to finish any time soon.