A reader visiting Fairway over at Twelfth Avenue noticed that the old West Market Diner has now totally been demolished. So the next question that was posed was wether any of the historic Art Deco diner's original interior was salvaged or not. More photos of the diner as it stood after the jump and more details on Columbia University's original statement on the fate of the diner:
The only photo we have on file for the 659 West 131st Street is actually one that show what it looked like when it was called Gibb's Diner based on information sent in by the relative of the previous owner from the 1920s:
LINK. By the late 1940s, the West Market Diner would take over and replaced the interior with the classic Deco stainless-steel which evidently was one of the last of its kind in the city. The diner closed soon after Columbia bought it back in 2003 but the university's website on the Manhattanville Campus has confirmed that the interior will be saved and presumedly relocated to one of the new buildings in the area:
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Thank you for sharing..What a historical diner this was.
ReplyDeleteI read that it had been temporarily moved to be refurbished and will be back on the new campus at some point in the future.
ReplyDeleteI just remembered where I read it:
ReplyDeletehttp://neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/pdf-files/growing_together_aug_2011.pdf