Circumstances

George Blecher’s article “More Than Coffee: New York’s Vanishing Diner Culture” was published in 2016, as a reaction to the decline of New York City diner. To convey these circumstances, Blecher looks at the many diners that have closed down in recent years:

Among the 2016 casualties were the Lyric Diner in Gramercy and the 40-year-old Del Rio in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, while La Parisienne near Columbus Circle and the 53-year-old Market Diner in Hell’s Kitchen closed in 2015. Then there was Cafe Edison, a 34-year-old coffee shop that shut in 2014 to much sadness in the Broadway community. (ll. 12-15)

These examples give the reader an overview of how many older New York diners have been forced to close.  

The article also focuses on the situation in Manhattan in particular: “Manhattan has certainly seen more diner closings than other boroughs. That ...