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Last night the gorgeous old Cheyenne Diner was unceremoniously carted away on flatbed trucks to its new home in Birmingham, Alabama. Did anyone else mistakenly think it was already gone? Actually, only its signs were removed, back in January, after a push to keep it in NYC by moving it to Red Hook failed. Because that's just what Manhattan so desperately needs. Birmingham businessman Joel Owens bought the 1940s-era streamlined diner for several thousand dollars; he tells CNN, "I think it's the most beautiful diner in the world. If you think about what's wrong with today, in order to fix the problems of today, you've got to look back... [to] when it was better. I think [the diner] is symbolic of the glory days. Technology and more money doesn't necessarily mean progress. We long for simpler times. These types of buildings can be an instrument for our youth to learn from the past. Teenagers need a clean environment for entertainment, a 'hang out.'" Here in New York, we obviously need more condos; naturally that's what the owner of the Cheyenne's midtown site plans to build on the site.
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I have a spare bathroom closet I'm not really using. I'll consider all sensible offers from wealthy eccentrics who wish to dismantle it and set it up in Hooterville somewhere.
Philosophically, I agree with him. Technology and more money do not mean progress. But, how is latching onto an icon of the past supposed to help? "This is the way things were" doesn't help change how they are.
As a reference, okay, but don't play it up like it'll single-handedly revive the 'Glory Days' and the nuclear family that never existed.
It would serve the owner of the property right if he either can't get financing for the new building or builds it and nobody buys, like so many other condos in the city.
True. True. I guess the property owner will wake up one morning and say to himself, "Well it seemed like a profitable idea at the time."
True. True. I guess the property owner will wake up one morning and say to himself, "Well it seemed like a profitable idea at the time."
Why, exactly? because the owner wants to maximize his income instead of preserving a diner for those against change? It ain't Carnegie Hall, it's a diner. Anyone who wanted to preserve the place could have made an offer to the owner. Of course, no one wants to pay market value for that land to be occupied by a diner with limited income potential -- because they are motivated by $$, same as the owner.
Tear it down, build condos. I hope they sell, and that everyone makes $ so those extra tax dollars can be added to the city coffers.