Croton Distributing Reservoir
New York, New York, USA
Demolished 1899
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
The High Line
New York, New York, USA
Redeveloped 2006
Iriquis Walk
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Fate Unknown
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
Mars Bar
New York, New York, USA
Closed 2011
Savoy Ballroom
New York, New York, USA
Closed 1958, demolished 1959
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