Cafeteria 61
Cafeteria 61 is the deli where I used to get my bagel every morning and exchange flirtatious banter with the cute counter boy. A couple of months ago it closed, and now this morning it was all burned up. Looks like an insurance fire to me, which is a shame because it was a beautiful old building that Laurie says used to be a club/restaurant called the Lone Star Cafe that I remember hearing about in a Paul Simon song. The upper part used to be this big open lounge space surrounded by windows where I could just hang out and drink diet coke and watch 5th Avenue flow by all day.