http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/12/master-list-2001-2013.htmlPosted this in gangster - "real life" section but is more appropriate here I think. A good list that is mostly Manhattan and Brooklyn stuff. Almost all the closed businesses in Manhattan were for luxury condos.
2013 (836 years)
Stile's Market: 26 years
Pushed out by landlord, to be demolished for luxury development
5Pointz, formerly Phun Phactory: 20 years
White-washed by owner, to be demolished for luxury condo towers
Famous Roio’s/Ray’s Pizza: 40 years
Building sold
Ray Beauty Supply: 50 years
Property seized by landlord
Vercesi Hardware: 101 years
Building sold to be demolished for luxury condos
D’Auito’s Bakery: 89 years
Unknown
Odessa Restaurant: 48 years
Building sold, gastropub to move in, now for rent
Splash gay bar: 22 years
Lack of business
Paradise Café: 20 years
Rent hike
Big Nick’s Burger and Pizza Joint: 51 years
Rent increase from $42,000 to $60,000 a month
Max Fish: 24 years
Rent increase
Joe’s Dairy: 60 years
Cost of doing business
Bleecker Bob’s Records: 46 years
Rent hike
Blarney Cove: 50+ years
Evicted for new development
Sofia’s Italian restaurant: 35 years
Lost their lease
9th Street Bakery: 87 years
38% rent hike, replaced by juice-cleanse and smoothie shop
Capucine’s Italian restaurant: 33 years
Rent hike
Rawhide gay bar: 34 years
Rent hike, to be turned into a pizza chain from California
2012 (1302 years)
Rocco Ristorante: 90 years
Lost lease to trendy restaurateurs, gutted and upscaled
The Holiday Cocktail Lounge: 47 years
Sold and gutted for a gastropub
Kenny’s Castaway’s: 45 years
Rising cost of business
McCullough’s Kiddie Park, Coney Island: 50 years
Lost their lease
Manganaro's Grosseria: 119 years
Sold and gutted for a more upscale restaurant
A Clean Well-Lighted Place: 36 years
Now an upscale boutique
World of Video: 29 years
Lost its lease
Chelsea Gallery Diner: 30 years
Forced out of Chelsea
Bill's Gay 90s: 88 years
Lost its lease to a trendy restaurateur, gutted and upscaled
Atlas Barber School: 64 years
Lost lease due to hiked rent, now a UPS
Prime Burger: 47 years
Lost lease when building sold
Lascoff Pharmacy: 113 years
Closed and gutted
Colony Records: 60 years
Closed when the new landlord, Stonehenge Properties, quintupled the rent to $5 million per month
Movie Star News: 73 years
Rent hiked, turned into a luxury bathroom fixture store
Lafayette French Bakery: 30+ years
Evicted
Partners & Crime Bookshop: 18 years
Closed due to lack of business
University Diner: 60 years
Evicted
El Faro: 85 years
Possibly evicted?
Village Chess Shop: 40 years
Closed due to lack of business
The Stage Deli: 75 years
Rent increase
Lenox Lounge: 63 years
Landlord doubled the rent, given to upscale restaurateur
H&H Bagels: 40 years
Last location evicted
2011 (575 years)
Gansevoort Pumping Station, Premier Veal plant: 105 years
Evicted and demolished for new Whitney Museum and High Line headquarters
Polonia: 22 years
Probable rent hike
Auggie’s Coffee shop: 45 years
Could not afford the rent
The Original Ray's Pizza: 52 years
Legal dispute with landlord
Mars Bar: 26 years
Demolished to build luxury condos, to become a bank
Brownfeld Auto: 120 years
Evicted when landlord decided to sell for luxury High Line development
Chelsea Hotel: 127 years
Sold and closed to guests
Life Café: 30 years
Dispute with landlord over repairs
Elaine’s: 48 years
Death of owner
2010 (886 years)
Skyline Books: 20 years
Probable rent hike, replaced with a body waxing salon
JJ’s Navy Yard bar: 103 years
Evicted, sold, and demolished, replaced by hipster coffee
Telephone Bar and Grill: 22 years
Sold and replaced with a frat bar
Gino: 65 years
Closed when landlord raised rent $8,000 per month, turned into a cupcake bakery chain
Empire Diner: 34 years
Lost their lease
Guss’ Pickles: 100 years
Left the Lower East Side due to rising neighborhood rents
Shore Hotel: 107 years
Coney Island hotel, demolished by Thor Equities to make room for new construction
Fedora: 58 years
Closed by owner in old age, taken over by a trendy restaurateur, gutted and upscaled
Carmine's at the Seaport: 107 years
Closed when landlord raised the rent to $13,000 a month
St. Vincent's Hospital: 161 years
Closed and demolished for a billion-dollar luxury condo project
New York Doll Hospital: 109 years
Death of owner, no successor
2009 (613 years)
Arnold Hatters: 50 years
Unable to make rent after original location taken by eminent domain to build New York Times tower, replaced by 7-Eleven
Joe Jr.'s diner: 35 years
Lost their lease, now upscale coffee
P&G Bar: 67 years
Lost lease, gutted and replaced by upscale cafe
Amato Opera House: 61 years
Closed by the owner in old age, building sold
Love Saves the Day: 43 years
Closed in part due to high rent
Tavern on the Green: 75 years
Bankruptcy
Café Des Artistes: 92 years
Bankruptcy
Manny’s Music: 74 years
Bought out by Sam Ash, also later shuttered
Provincetown Playhouse: 91 years
Demolished by NYU
Biography Bookshop: 25 years
Rent hike, owners relocated as BookBook
2008 (821 years)
Jefferson Market: 79 years
Money trouble, now sales office for billion-dollar luxury condo project at St. Vincent's
Fazil’s Times Square Studio: 73 years
Closed for building demolition
Astroland amusement park: 46 years
Sold to Thor Equities for redevelopment
Donnell Library: 53 years
Closed and demolished for a luxury hotel
The Minetta Tavern: 71 years
Landlord raised the rent, gave lease to upscale restaurateur
Bobby's Happy House: 61 years
Building sold for a big-box chain store
Chez Brigitte: 50 years
Rent doubled, replaced by frozen yogurt chain
Cafe Figaro: 39 years
Lost their lease, became fast-food burrito chain and bank
Yankee Stadium: 85 years
Demolished and replaced with an upscale ballpark
Shea Stadium: 44 years
Demolished and replaced with upscale, corporate-named Citi-Field
Florent: 24 years
Closed due to rent hike, from $6,000 to $50,000 per month
Vesuvio Bakery: 88 years
Sold
M&G Diner: 40 years
Sold and shuttered
Cheyenne Diner: 68 years
Lost its lease, moved away
2007 (783 years)
Limelight: 24 years
Shuttered by police, reopened, eventually closed and converted to luxury shopping mall
The Roxy: 29 years
Shut down for conversion to luxury condos
Dojo’s Restaurant, 33 years
Rent hike
Gertel's Bakery: 93 years old
Sold, demolished for condo development
The Playpen Theater: 100 years
Sold and demolished for luxury hotel tower and Shake Shack chain
Chumley's: 79 years old
Collapsed
Jade Mountain: 76 years old
Death of owner
Moondance Diner: 74 years
Closed for condo development, moved to Wyoming
Kurowycky Meats: 52 years old
Closed due to lack of business
Copeland's: 49 years old
Victim of gentrification
Donuts Coffee Shop: 32 years old
Evicted
Sucelt Coffee: 31 years old
Rent hike
Teresa's Polish restaurant: 22 years old
Rent hike
Rose’s Turn: 56 years
Family sold building for $3.5 million
Coliseum Books: 33 years
Rent too high
2006 (373 years)
Cedar Tavern: 140 years
Demolished for condos, replaced with a body waxing salon
Gotham Book Mart: 86 years
Evicted
McHale's Bar: 62 years
Demolished for luxury condo tower
The Second Avenue Deli: 52 years
Rent increase, replaced with a bank
CBGBs: 33 years
Rent dispute, replaced by John Varvatos upscale boutique
photo via Satan's Laundromat
2005 (278 years)
Variety Photoplays Theater: 108 years
Demolished by the Toll Brothers for a 21-story condo tower
Fulton Fish Market: 170 years
Moved to the Bronx due to “the creeping conversion of Manhattan into a monstrous mall” --NY Times
2004 (319 years)
A. Zito & Sons Bakery: 80 years
Rising cost of business
The Bottom Line: 30 years
NYU raised the rent
The original Kim’s Video: 17 years
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Jon Vie Bakery: 42 years
“a victim of soaring rents in a neighborhood populated as much by bankers as by bohemians.” --NY Times
Domino Sugar Factory: 150 years
Declining business, to be converted to luxury condos
photo via: Intersection's Flickr
2002 (127 years)
Ratner’s: 97 years
Cost of doing business
Madison Avenue Bookshop: 30 years
Lack of business
2001 (13 years)
Wetlands: 13 years
Building sold for luxury condos
