Your chance to own the King's gyro rotators, gas griddle

King Gyro recently closed on First Avenue between Third Street and Fourth Street ... the owners are now going for that Pudgie's-Nathan's-Arthur Treacher's combo.

Anyway, today at noon, they are unloading the stuff that they don't need for the new eatery...

[Photo by Bobby Williams]

Fast-food trifecta: Take a look at what's replacing King Gyro on First Avenue

EV Grieve reader Creature brought us the news on Monday about King Gyro closing on First Avenue between Third Street and Fourth Street...

...he's back with news of its replacement:

Oh my! A Pudgie's-Nathan's-Arthur Treacher's action-packed combo!

And if Pudgie's is so famous, how come we've never heard of it?

Here's what we found. The healthy fried chicken!

So we guess this fills the need after the Pizza Hut-Nathan's-Arthur Treacher's combo made way for the Spaghetti Meatball Factory on 14th Street and Second Avenue...

UPDATED:

An instant request for Spike... from 1980...

The King (Gyro) is dead

EV Grieve reader Creature sends along these photos showing that King Gyro on First Avenue between Third Street and Fourth Street has closed...

They opened last April, and seemed to offer an awful lot of options.

Per Robert Sietsema at Fork in the Road last spring:

A gyro rotates in the depths of the kitchen, a couple of guys stand around behind the counter, desultorily stirring the curries, which make up a small proportion of the full menu. There are Middle Eastern specialties, too, and an array of kebabs, fish platters, bagels, breakfasts (including the weird-sounding beef cutlets with egg), pastries, samosas, meat patties, soups, lassis, Greek salads, and South Asian tandoori breads that get as arcane as gobi (cauliflower) paratha, plus fruit juices and smoothies. The king is spreading himself rather thin, don't you think?

Apparently.

Reader report: Small fire at King Gyro this morning

EV Grieve reader Lambert Jack sent along this photo just after 7:15 a.m. today... He noted there there were four fire trucks and several police cars on the scene here along First Avenue...

Meanwhile, a reader who lives adjacent to King Gyro on First Avenue between Third Street and Fourth Street noted that a small fire broke out in the restaurant. The reader noted that firefighters were on the scene for 30 minutes, and there didn't appear to be any injuries.