{"id":1280,"date":"2006-07-11T10:03:30","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T18:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/the_catskills_manhattans_storage_shed.html"},"modified":"2006-07-11T10:03:30","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T18:03:30","slug":"the_catskills_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/the_catskills_m.html","title":{"rendered":"The Catskills: Manhattan’s Storage Shed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chelsea diner slated to become a “classy restaurant in a retro location” is now a dilapidated eyesore in a retro location<\/a>:<\/p>\n

An old-school Hell’s Kitchen diner saved from the wrecking ball last year by a promise of relocation, now sits deserted in the Catskills.
\nIt has no operator, customers or clear future.<\/p>\n

The Munson Diner, opened in the early 1950s and shuttered in the summer of 2004, moved to upstate Liberty in May 2005. This delighted its owner, a neighbor who wanted to expand, and preservationists.<\/p>\n

Its grand reopening was scheduled for this summer.<\/p>\n

The relocation was supposed to kick-start Liberty, which has been in a slump since Borscht Belt spots such as Singer’s Deli and Grossinger’s resort closed in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

The diner, a famed Andy Warhol haunt and backdrop for episodes of “Law & Order” and “Seinfeld,” sits empty off the main street in Liberty.<\/p>\n

The new owner has yet to find an operator, though he said he’s fielded offers from over 20 interested restaurateurs — and two jailhouse inmates.<\/p>\n

Construction crews and drilling teams, in the midst of a massive street reconstruction project, surround the forlorn diner.<\/p>\n

“Half of the road is ripped up [and] that makes it hard to see the vision,” said Heinrich Strauch, executive director of the Liberty Community Development Corp.<\/p>\n

Owner Jeremy Gorelick says, “I can’t tell you how frustrating it’s been that it hasn’t opened on schedule.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Backstory: A Classy Restaurant in a Retro Location<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chelsea diner slated to become a “classy restaurant in a retro location” is now a dilapidated eyesore in a retro location: An old-school Hell’s Kitchen diner saved from the wrecking ball last year by a promise of relocation, now sits deserted in the Catskills. It has no operator, customers or clear future. The Munson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}