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Related: About this forumOriginal Bowlmor Lanes In Greenwich Village Closes After 76 Years
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) New York Citys oldest bowling alley has closed after 76 years.
Bowlmor Lanes in Greenwich Village closed Monday after the owner was not offered a new lease.
The entire company is filled with tremendous sadness as our original location is shutting its doors, Colie Edison, vice president of marketing, told 1010 WINS. Its really been a historic, iconic location in Greenwich Village.
Edison said the space on University Place will become luxury condos.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/07/08/original-bowlmor-lanes-in-greenwich-village-closes-after-76-years/
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)I loved that place.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I tell you, I'm so happy that I moved to manhattan when I did, when there was more culture and variety.
1978. Sure, there was more dirt and crime but there were also more open spaces and things/people/places of interest.
My old digs on East Houston are nothing like they were, for example.
I'm afraid to come back for fear of what's been removed.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)How many famous clubs were on that street, and a favorite restaurant, wonder if Cafe Espanol is still there, and the Fantastics was playing, longest running show ever.
Sad! More evidence of the corporatization of, well, everything and every place!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)We worked in the same office on Broadway at Bleeker.
Now I wonder if that grand old building is there.
Every so often I do a Google Street View of old places from my years there.
Thanks for the heads up!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Golden Raisin
(4,609 posts)Columbus Avenue is now devoid of the old mom'n'pop stores (where actual useful services were provided) and now looks like Madison Avenue with fancy, elegant, chi-chi boutiques where the front windows list all the "branch stores" in Paris, Geneva, Monte Carlo, Dubai, Beverly Hills, etc.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)You gotta be fucking kidding me.
They could have built those condos anywhere. This shit is deliberate. It is a form of propaganda and humiliation.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)grilled onions
(1,957 posts)Everything is in danger of going under for the 1%. To them there is no reason to keep such places when there is always a need for another place to hang there hat when they drop into the city for a weekender. To hell with those who enjoyed this bowling icon. They do the same for just a nice quiet field that is (horrors) vacant!
They cannot stand a piece of land anywhere that the 99% might enjoy for camping,walking taking pictures of nature. They only want land to pay for itself,land that can make them wealthier. It is obscene.