Cheyenne Diner Has a New Lease on Life in Red Hook
The Cheyenne Diner, one of the city’s last railcar-style eateries, is moving to Brooklyn, according to Urbanite. The chrome-encased, 1940s-vintage diner on West 33rd Street closed on April 6th to make way for a new building. Michael O’Connell, the son of Red Hook developer Greg O’Connell, bought the diner for $5,000 and plans to move…
The Cheyenne Diner, one of the city’s last railcar-style eateries, is moving to Brooklyn, according to Urbanite. The chrome-encased, 1940s-vintage diner on West 33rd Street closed on April 6th to make way for a new building. Michael O’Connell, the son of Red Hook developer Greg O’Connell, bought the diner for $5,000 and plans to move it to Red Hook and restore and reopen it. I can’t begin to tell you how many people are excited about it in Red Hook, said Greg O’Connell, It’s a great thing, and my son is so excited over this. Add us to that list.
Cheyenne Saved and Moving to Red Hook [Urbanite]
Photo by shanestroud.
sweet! nice thrift score Michael.
I heard they are renaming the are Blue Hook in honor of our Swedish saviors.
Better get busy getting in shape and adding padding to dodge all the speeding Ikea traffic that’ll be hitting the nabe come the middle of June. They done fukked it up good this time. Next stop: Port Elizabeth, NJ.
10:11 is an asshole!
great idea. restore the diner. forget about these nay sayers. they are just spectators. talk is cheap. we need more people who can make things happen for red hook. bring in all the amenities , and I love the idea of making red hook a bicycle paradise.
and for the person trying to use “project dwellers” as a negative statement. F you.
you can not put all the residents under one category. there are many decent and hard working people living there, amongst a few bad apples.
these people will all be consumers, and are more then willing to help create a better neighborhood for their children.
it has been a long time, but we will get there.
Has didactic ever had a positive connotation? Not to my knowledge. Rather like pedantic, it may have positive roots, but it sure isn’t a compliment.
10:44
Didactic as preachy and overbearing. When it comes to describing Red Hook’s own Monsieur Moustache, it’s pretty much spot on.
10.44, does “didactic” have a new negative connotation that no one yet knows about? Or is that just your overinflated, bombastic lexicon speaking?
Great, that’s all we need. Another mediocre eatery that realtors can use as a selling point for this crappy neighborhood and where hipsters can hang out and complain that there is too much commerce in the neighborhood and how Ikea and Fairway are ruining what Red Hook is all about.
I hope the place becomes a hangout for project dwellers and that the hipster waitresses don’t get tips.