One Diner – to go

●NY Daily News May'05

Moving a classic Manhattan diner upstate: a quarter of a million bucks. Preserving city history and revitalizing a Catskills town: priceless. Read More...

One Classic Diner, to go

●Newsday May'05

There are plenty of diners that offer delivery, bits it’s not often that a diner itself gets delivered. That’s just what the village of Liberty, N.Y., ordered up and got yesterday – after a bump in the road, of sorts – when a truck designed for oversized loads carried away the silver and blue Munson Diner that had stood at 49th street and 11th Avenue since the 1940’s and had served coffee, pancakes and burgers to generations of New Yorkers, 24 hours a day. Read More...

Manhattan Diner Pulls Up Roots, and Countertop, for the Catskills

●New York Times Metro – May'05

It was possible to take the money used to buy the defunct Munson Diner, for nearly six decades a neon-lit source of heartburn and nostalgia in Hell’s Kitchen, and get, say, a bare-bones BMW convertible. Read More...

Manhattan Rescue

●The Octagonian/Sigma Alpha Mu Summer'05

New York City’s historic Munson Diner has been moved from the corner of 11th Avenue and 49th Street, its Hell’s Kitchen home, thanks to the intervention of Fra Jeremy Gorelick, John Hopkins ’01, president of the Munson Diner Corporation. Read More...

MOVABLE FEAST

●New York Post May'05

One 57-year-old, 30-ton, extra-spicy diner – to go, please. The chrome and blue Munson Diner was set to be hauled off its rough-and-tumble Hell’s Kitchen corner early this morning and moved to a new home in the decidedly less piquant Catskills village of Liberty. Read More...

Munson Diner saved from demolition

●The River Reporter May'05

LIBERTY, NY – Evan as the lifeless Munson Diner logged mile after mile en route to the Catskills on a flatbed trailer, it held its power to keep people going all night long. Read More...

Diner Makes a Few Stops on the Way to Liberty

●Sullivan County Democrat Aug'05

Liberty – Jerry Seinfeld would have been proud. ...But perhaps a bit perplexed with all the media hoopla surrounding uprooting a rundown old diner that was once used as a location for an episode of his early television shows, and carting it from 11th Avenue and 49th Street in Manhattan to a vacant lot in Liberty, near the corner of Lake and Main. Read More...

Munson Moving to Liberty

●Times Herald Record Apr'05

NEW YORK – For decades, construction workers rolled into the Munson Diner for eggs and toast as the sun rose over Hell’s Kitchen. Cops popped in for coffee and cabbies grabbed a bagel or burger between fares. Commuters picked up dinner on their way to the Lincoln Tunnel and late-night club kids poured themselves into the black booths for cheeseburgers and onion rings before dawn. Read More...

Manhattan’s Biggest Take-out Order

●The Towne Crier Apr'05

LIBERTY – Talk about your large orders to go. The Munson Diner, a fixture from the corner of West 49th Street, is moving from Manhattan to the South Main Street district of Liberty next month. Read More...

Downtown Revival Deluxe

●The Towne Crier May'05

Even though the Munson Diner was four hours late in arriving, the crowd just seemed to grow – and wait. When the diner-bearing trailer came into view, children began shouting, "It’s coming, it’s coming." Read More...