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Subway Inn moving

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As you may know, iconic midtown NYC dive bar Subway Inn has been fighting to stay open despite landlords who want them out. Bad news / good news: they’re leaving their current space (after 77 years of slinging cheap booze), but are moving two blocks nearby, looking to stay exactly the same. The owners posted this on Subway Inn’s facebook:

On December 2nd, 2014– the Subway Inn will close at its current location on 60th and Lexington Ave. to begin its relocation and REPLICATION (EXACTLY AS IT IS NOW) less than 2 blocks away on the same side of the street –at 60th and Second Avenue. Our move and REPLICATION is expected to take approximately 10 weeks to complete.

We had requested to remain in our current home til the end of the year so that none of our family members or employees would be without a job over the holiday season. Unfortunately, the landlord denied or plea.

We are excited about this development and have put the right team in place to make certain that every piece of furniture, including our famous neon signs, the current bar, every bar stool, even the original bar booths–(that Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio sat in) will make their way a stone’s throw down 60th Street and be set back up exactly as you see it today.

And, it won’t just be the contents that will be the same. The space will look exactly the same. Colors, floor and all! In fact, our replication architect is hard at work making sure our new home will be nearly identical. Also, our prices will not change.

See you in your new spot in 2015, Subway Inn.

Related: Don Hill’s is reopening as The Hills NYC but aiming to stay the same otherwise.

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