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.
At least Greg’s improvements to the neighborhood are palpable. In nine years I’ve lived in the area, I have found the so called “activist-types†in Red Hook to be didactic, smug, cliquey and suffering from an ungodly amount of cognitive dissonance – they claim they’re fighting for justice when fundamentally all they care about is property values, easy street parking and keeping the NYCHA residents out of their quaint little village known as the “back.â€
I presume 10.11 is that crook Guttman – see what he did for greenpoint compared to what O’Connell did for Red Hook.
WOW!
What a bargain. I would have paid more for salvage rights.
O’Connell is a crook.
Will Cheyenne serve meatballs?
Any word on if it will be 24hrs in Red Hook?
I wish Greg O’Connell was the DOB commissioner
Best news I’ve heard since the market headed south!