Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Subway Inn continues to live to serve another day


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Heading out of the neighborhood for a sec ... Via the EVG inbox...

On behalf of the entire Salinas family, I would like to applaud Civil Court Judge Jennifer Schecter for her heroic decision earlier today, which for the second time in less than 10 days, stayed all eviction proceedings against our family business. I would also like to take this opportunity, to once again thank the thousands of New Yorkers who have signed our petition and have sent us notes of encouragement to help my family stay strong through this very trying ordeal.

What my family has learned through this struggle to save our business (which has been in our family for more than 4 decades) is that this fight had struck a nerve in the heart of many New Yorkers. This is no longer a fight JUST about my family and our livelihood, it is about saving the character and charm of Olde New York by preserving our building, which has served both famous as well as everyday day New Yorkers proudly for more than 77 years.

We also would to commend the work and support of the New York City’s Landmark Preservation Commission, Councilman Dan Garodnick, and State Senator Liz Krueger for standing behind our fight and their willingness to meet and help us as we continue to try to save this treasure.

Thank You,
Steven Salinas

Here 's more background on the situation here on East 60th Street.

Updated 4:23 p.m.
According to Eater, Subway's lease is up in February.

Updated 8/28
Here's an important update on the legal wrangling via DNAinfo ...

The World-Wide Group’s lawyer offered Oct. 21 as a new move-out date, but Subway Inn lawyers refused and asked for Nov. 30, saying it would take time for the Salinas family to find a new place to relocate their business.

Claude Castro, who represents Subway Inn, also asked that the Salinas family be able to take the decades-old neon sign, as well as the bar’s furniture when vacating the space. The World-Wide Group’s lawyer refused.
Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Should we start worrying about the Subway Inn?

Report: The Subway Inn will close next month

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good news. Hope it stays that way.

Anonymous said...

I bet it was the classic neon sign that did it?

I-)

Makeout said...

Good shit!

Gojira said...

Jeez! Finally, some good news, if only for now; but I find it hard to believe World-Wide will simply walk away from the site and leave it in peace...

Anonymous said...

So they will be out in February then. At least they get one more holiday season in their current location. I wonder if they have any idea where they will move to next spring. Good luck on that- they'll prob need it. Having this public spat with their landlord wont help them find a new spot.

Gojira said...

@Anon. 4:06 - Seriously? So it would have been better that they just folded their tents and slunk away after being in that location for over 40 years, just to make some out-of-town developers happy? With your line of reasoning, we'd all still be speaking with British accents - God forbid we piss off the overlords, right?

Anonymous said...

The working class 1, the billionaires 999,999,999.

Anonymous said...

Why have comments when you post the same viewpoint from the same people every day? I'd respond to Gojira but it won't get posted. Funny how the supposedly liberal and open minded shout down even the slightest suggestion of a differing view.

Gojira said...

@Anon. 9:10, guess again, Nostradamus.

Anonymous said...

Guess again? Meaning?