5Pointz
Aston, Birmingham, UK
Rebuilt 1957
Bonwit-Teller
New York, New York, USA
Demolished 1980
CBGB
New York, New York, USA
Closed 2006
Croton Distributing Reservoir
New York, New York, USA
Demolished 1899
Cup & Saucer
New York, New York, USA
Closed 2006
Dreamland
Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Burned 1911
Fairyland Kiddie Park
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Closed 2002
Florent
New York, New York, USA
Closed 2008
Henri Bendel
New York, New York, USA Closed 2019 The Disappointed Tourist: Henri Bendel, Ellen Harvey, 2021. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 24 x 18″ (61 x 46 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard. Since Bendel’s and Lord & Taylor’s flagship store closed, I’ve been seeing a lot of nostalgia for the giant old department stores. Larissa M. Henri […]
Homeless Home
New York, New York, USA
Removed 2020
The High Line
New York, New York, USA
Redeveloped 2006
Joe Jr. Restaurant
New York, New York, USA
Closed 2009
Kim’s Video
New York, New York, USA Closed 2014 Kim’s Video and Music were a group of video and music retail stores in and around New York City, known for their esoteric titles and knowledgeable if haughty staff. The owner, Yongman Kim, opened the first location inside his laundromat at 85 Avenue A. There was a second store at […]
Laurelton Hall
Laurel Hollow, Long Island, New York, USA
Burned 1957
Luna Park
Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Burned 1944
Madison Square Garden II
New York, New York, USA Demolished 1926 This isn’t my own memory, but I interviewed the novelist Louis Auchincloss years ago, and he was endlessly nostalgic not only for the New York he used to know (he was born in 1917) but for the New York he had heard about from his grandparents. “I think,” […]
Mars Bar
New York, New York, USA
Closed 2011
Penn Station
Disappointed Tourist: Penn Station, New York, New York, USA
Demolished 1963
Savoy Ballroom
New York, New York, USA
Closed 1958, demolished 1959
Steeplechase Park
Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Burned 1907
Tic Tac Toe Chicken
Chinatown, New York, New York, USA Retired 2002 As a connoisseur of cheap entertainments, I was drawn to the forlorn chicken in its box because, while it was also supposed to seem somehow mechanical among the other mechanical games, really it was a holdover from Medieval Fairgrounds, a chicken Mechanical Turk. And it reminded me […]
Tower Records
New York, New York, USA
Closed 2006
Utopia Neighborhood Club House
Harlem, New York, New York, USA
Date of Closing Unknown