Journalists Bid Farewell to New York's Market Diner

Eater and Jeremiah's Vanishing New York among those paying their final respects.

MarketDinerMenuRents ain’t what they used to be. That, in a nutshell, is why the 24-hour Market Diner in Hell’s Kitchen closed its doors Sunday.

For Eater, reporter Robert Sietsema and photographer Nick Solares paid a recent final visit to the joint open since 1962. Their “Eulogy” features nostalgic elements like these:

It was a once a hangout for celebrities who wanted a plainish meal on the down-low. Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, Rudy Giuliani and Kate Smith ate there, and so did Geraldo Rivera, who appeared one evening in a priest’s outfit with a gaggle of cops, having just returned from an undercover assignment.

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