Original Bowlmor Lanes In Greenwich Village Closes After 76 Years

[hrmjustin]

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – New York City’s oldest bowling alley has closed after 76 years.

Bowlmor Lanes in Greenwich Village closed Monday after the owner was not offered a new lease.

“The entire company is filled with tremendous sadness as our original location is shutting its doors,” Colie Edison, vice president of marketing, told 1010 WINS. “It’s really been a historic, iconic location in Greenwich Village.”

Edison said the space on University Place will become luxury condos.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/07/08/original-bowlmor-lanes-in-greenwich-village-closes-after-76-years/

[KurtNYC]

1. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!

[hrmjustin]

2. It is a sin!

I loved that place.

[NYC_SKP]

8. Oh, damn!

I tell you, I'm so happy that I moved to manhattan when I did, when there was more culture and variety.

1978. Sure, there was more dirt and crime but there were also more open spaces and things/people/places of interest.

My old digs on East Houston are nothing like they were, for example.

I'm afraid to come back for fear of what's been removed.

[hrmjustin]

9. It is not the same. Bleeker looks like 5th Ave now. Disgusting!

[NYC_SKP]

10. I lived right off Bleeker before Houston, how sad!

How many famous clubs were on that street, and a favorite restaurant, wonder if Cafe Espanol is still there, and the Fantastics was playing, longest running show ever.

Sad! More evidence of the corporatization of, well, everything and every place!

[hrmjustin]

11. Yes it is still there.

[NYC_SKP]

12. It isn't the fanciest by far, but a favorite for me and girlfriend at the time.

We worked in the same office on Broadway at Bleeker.

Now I wonder if that grand old building is there.

Every so often I do a Google Street View of old places from my years there.

Thanks for the heads up!

[hrmjustin]

13. your welcome

[Golden Raisin]

14. Same syndrome uptown.

Columbus Avenue is now devoid of the old mom'n'pop stores (where actual useful services were provided) and now looks like Madison Avenue with fancy, elegant, chi-chi boutiques where the front windows list all the "branch stores" in Paris, Geneva, Monte Carlo, Dubai, Beverly Hills, etc.

[hrmjustin]

15. It is disgusting and sad.

[Rod Beauvex]

3. Luxury condos.

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

They could have built those condos anywhere. This shit is deliberate. It is a form of propaganda and humiliation.

[hrmjustin]

4. It is a disgrace.

[hrmjustin]

5. They closed all of the Bowling Alleys in southern Brooklyn.

[grilled onions]

6. Icons,Historical Sites,Famous Landmarks

Everything is in danger of going under for the 1%. To them there is no reason to keep such places when there is always a need for another place to hang there hat when they drop into the city for a weekender. To hell with those who enjoyed this bowling icon. They do the same for just a nice quiet field that is (horrors) vacant!
They cannot stand a piece of land anywhere that the 99% might enjoy for camping,walking taking pictures of nature. They only want land to pay for itself,land that can make them wealthier. It is obscene.

[hrmjustin]

7. The Village has changed for the worst. It is losing its oul to the 1 percent.