Mickey Mantle's restaurant is about to be SK

[W1GUH]

Game over for Mickey Mantle’s Restaurant

That's a shame. Nice place with a great legacy. Was there once or twice, but never saw Mickey or Billy, but it WAS a nice bar there on 59th St.

Guess it's already sk...called and got no answer. Wanted to get there one more time.

RIP, Mick & your restaurant.

[n2ize]

Here's the shit

Villano blamed the shutdown on “increasing food prices, shifting city regulations and landlord interference.”

Looks like f*cking Rudy / Bloomby and the NYC wrecking crew killed another good ol' place. Sad. Another piece of NYC is dead. I guess it will be replaced by yet another sterile vapid crappy trendy overpriced yuppie nightspot.

[N7YA]

Yep! We have a bunch of empty patches of desert where bits of old school Vegas once stood. Gone is the swagger and cool, replaced by the sterile Disney-ish corporate enviroment of modern Vegas. There are a lot of empty condo buildings here that got built in a hurry and never sold. Lots of people lost their jobs, livelyhood and history in the drunken orgy of commerce. It didnt happen, those sharks moved on and left us with only empty shells.


Americas great cities are those shells. Im sorry to hear about Mick's, i truly am because i know the feeling.

[W4GPL]

At this point, the man has been dead for almost 20 years.. no judgements, no disparaging remarks (from me).. but I'd love to know the truth about how he got a liver transplant. What misdeeds, if anyway, were done by the doctors and the transplant agency? It would be nice to know what happened and how we can prevent it in the future.

I know Mickey Mantle is a hero to many Americans, but the organ transplant system really got the shaft the day he got a new liver, IMHO/YMMV.

[W1GUH]

There were a lot of words here to the effect of what you're saying. Not everybody was on the same page about it.

Money, fame, and, in Mick's case, love can do wonders.

[N7YA]

At this point, the man has been dead for almost 20 years.. no judgements, no disparaging remarks (from me).. but I'd love to know the truth about how he got a liver transplant. What misdeeds, if anyway, were done by the doctors and the transplant agency? It would be nice to know what happened and how we can prevent it in the future.

I know Mickey Mantle is a hero to many Americans, but the organ transplant system really got the shaft the day he got a new liver, IMHO/YMMV.

This is all news to me. All i know about the man is that he swung a baseball bat and hit a ball really well. His rookie card is worth a lot of money and he had a resturant that employed people and that had patrons who liked it. The man himself? Dont have a clue.

[n2ize]

This is all news to me. All i know about the man is that he swung a baseball bat and hit a ball really well. His rookie card is worth a lot of money and he had a resturant that employed people and that had patrons who liked it. The man himself? Dont have a clue.

I have to agree. Everyone has their faults. In Mick's case it was too much booze. Messed up his liver. None of us are perfect. But all in all Mick was a great guy in that he played some good baseball and make lots of fans and kids happy and proud. And patrons like him and his restaurant. It was symbolic of good food, great baseball and an all round great guy. A guy with faults but a great guy nonetheless. The restaurant became a legacy in and of itself just as Mick himself. It is sad to see it closing because it was a part of a great city and a still great city that has sadly is loosing too many of the things that make it great. I guess its happening all over the country. I know a lot of rural folks tel me their favorite town ain't the same after the small Ma and Pa shops and restaurants have left and have been replaced by the chains. We are all in the same boat. We are loosing too many of the good things that made our big cities and our small towns unique and spacial to those who knew and grew up with them.

[kb2vxa]

Mantle and Maris were the Gold Dust Twins I grew up with, now even the restaurant is gone, all that's left are numbers on the wall of Yankee Stadium. (:-<)

"...the small Ma and Pa shops and restaurants have left and have been replaced by the chains."
Placed us in chains is closer to the point.

"We are all in the same boat."
Yup, and it's A Night To Remember.

Coincidentally Mantle and Bloominboogers share a name... EEK!

[KC2UGV]

Here's the shit



Looks like f*cking Rudy / Bloomby and the NYC wrecking crew killed another good ol' place. Sad. Another piece of NYC is dead. I guess it will be replaced by yet another sterile vapid crappy trendy overpriced yuppie nightspot.

It actually sounds like somebody complaining, because their business wasn't flexible enough to change with the times.

[KC2UGV]

It is sad to see it closing because it was a part of a great city and a still great city that has sadly is loosing too many of the things that make it great.

I'm sure people said the same thing when Mick opened his place... "The old Stagecoach Inn is gone, everything good about this city is gone!"

I guess its happening all over the country. I know a lot of rural folks tel me their favorite town ain't the same after the small Ma and Pa shops and restaurants have left and have been replaced by the chains. We are all in the same boat. We are loosing too many of the good things that made our big cities and our small towns unique and spacial to those who knew and grew up with them.

A lot of people seem to get nostalgic about "Those good times", and not realizing, that was just "those days", and they weren't much better than today.

We lose lots that used to make the cities unique, and getting new things that make the cities unique, in their own right. You might hate or love the new things, but they are still what make up the city today.

Did you wax nostalgic when the village in Freedom Tunnel was evicted? How about when Alphabet City's shanty towns closed up, and were replaced by more renovated buildings? Did you get upset when 5 Points was redesigned into what it is today?