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RBC Closing
Dear RBC NYC Customers,
Thank you for your loyalty. Unfortunately we are closing Wednesday, 5/2. We are sorry to see RBC go as much as you are.
Thank you again,
RBC NYC StaffWell, shit.
What the…! Nooooo! DO NOT LIKE.
I can’t believe it! I see these guys almost every morning. Their coffee is fantastic. I’m so bummed.
Coffee with Harry Watts by lomokev
Harry Watts is a dapper gentlemen and photographer. He is always immaculately turned out, today I shot a montage portrait of hime for Brighton source magazine and fragmented portraits.
In a battle of titans, who will emerge victorious?!?!? As Richard Stevens, creator of popular pixelated webcomic Diesel Sweeties says in a recent update: ”I have a hard time picking a winner in this match-up. I love Johnny Toaster, but I can survive a morning without him. I need coffee, but I don’t always like its attitude. When these two fight, no one wins.” #TRUTH
Neil’s Coffee Shop
(On Lexington Avenue at 70th Street in the Upper East Side)[Pardon if my sentances don’t parse properly — I’m listening to the Beastie Boys as I write this in a futile attempt to drown out the racket of my upstairs neighbors. Oy.]
I’m pretty much bound to feel affectionately toward anything with “coffee shop” in the title and Neil’s has a great sign. Lovely script and block letters in channels hanging over the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 70th Street in glowy pink and deep orange will lead you to an old-school diner in the shadow of Hunter College. The service is not what you’d call attentive, the interior decor is a symphony of beige, and the standard diner fare is nothing to write home about (I had a decent grilled cheese and a disappointing milk shake), but it’s an old reliable in a neighborhood with too many snobs and show-offs. Add in a lovely neon sign, and I’m happy.
If you’re in the neighborhood you should ch-ch-check it out.
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Wanna see some neon from 1970s New York? OK, here you go. (Thanks, Paul.)
Wanna see Times Square neon in 1957? Have a look at this. (Thanks, Curt.)
Wanna see some fun neon in Austin? Lookee here.
EDIT: Oh, hey, guys — I think I forgot to tell you I wrote a guest post for I Love Old NY. Did I tell you this? If not, take a look — it’s a great site!
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[Pardon the jpeg junk on the photo above — this was one of the problems with Aperture. I was going to reupload the photo via Lightroom, but my trial copy ran out and Adobe won’t let me buy it for some reason I can only decipher between 9a and 5p. Hopefully I can fix this soon. If so, I’ll upload a better looking photo.]
Hanging in the Austin college cafeteria listening to the barenaked ladies on the FREE JUKEBOX! (Taken with Instagram at Kangaroo Coffee Company)
RBC Closing
Dear RBC NYC Customers,
Thank you for your loyalty. Unfortunately we are closing Wednesday, 5/2. We are sorry to see RBC go as much as you are.
Thank you again,
RBC NYC StaffWell, shit.
What the…! Nooooo! DO NOT LIKE.
I can’t believe it! I see these guys almost every morning. Their coffee is fantastic. I’m so bummed.
