SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
mikeymikeymikey
Swing Joined: 11/7/14
#1SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/7/14 at 9:56am
SIGN THIS PETITION TO SAVE THE HISTORIC EDISON CAFE!
https://www.change.org/p/richard-hotter-save-the-cafe-edison
New York City is an ever-changing city - this is nothing new. However, when the institutions that give our city character - institutions that are a part of Broadway and New York history - are forced to shutter due to rising rents or perceived insignificance, it becomes necessary for New Yorkers and visitors to our great city to speak up against it. McHale's. Colony Records. Smith's Bar & Restaurant. Howard Johnson's. Times Square Bagels. All have been torn down (or are slated to be) to bring in large commercial retailers or chain restaurants, stripping away yet another layer of our beloved Theatre District's history. And now the Cafe Edison. A tea room where August Wilson is said to have worked on three of his plays. A diner that inspired Neil Simon to write "45 Seconds From Broadway." A place where Sharon from Spokane can sit next to an honest-to-goodness Broadway star while having the best bowl of matzo ball soup in Midtown, if not the city. We ask that you and your hotel management please reconsider renewing the Cafe Edison's lease, and at a fair and reasonable price, with the knowledge that you would be preserving what's left of the character of the old Theatre District and your own hotel.
#2SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/7/14 at 10:01amToo late.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#4SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/7/14 at 10:07am
Spare that building, don't close it down
NO, NO, NO!
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#5SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/7/14 at 10:49amSigned. Saw that Gregory Jbara and Carol Kane signed it too.
#6SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/7/14 at 10:50am
I never sign these things.
I signed THIS thing.
alovingfan
Featured Actor Joined: 12/30/10
#8SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/7/14 at 1:14pm
"Glenn Close:
There are some things that should be preserved in a district that makes NYC the premiere theater destination point of the world. A place like Cafe Edison has been an important gathering place for theater casts and crews for years. It is a place dearly loved. With imagination and goodwill, wouldn't it be possible to preserve it as the treasured institution that it has become?"
-best12bars
"Sorry I am a Theatre major not a English Major"
-skibumb5290
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#10SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/7/14 at 2:12pmHow many of these celebrities actually eat there? I've seen Rosemary Harris and Jackie Mason in there, but are all these people really going to be sad that it's gone?
#12SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/7/14 at 2:27pmOh my God, some of the comments on that petition are beautiful.
#13SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/7/14 at 4:46pmI've seen countless well known recognizable faces over the years either getting takeout or at one of the booths or the counter. That's not the point although it doesn't hurt to have them on board to support this lil institution. This place has character built from decades of service to all who have lived, worked, or visited the theater district. That matters a great deal. The people who work there are almost to the person longtimers and deserve much better than this. Very sad indeed...
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#14SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/7/14 at 8:12pm
In the BWW article, it mentions one supporter being Sean Connery
Now we are getting somewhere when 007 gets on the case.
jimmycurry01
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/05
#15SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/7/14 at 8:50pmIf it were profitable enough, they would keep it open. Sadly, it hasn't been turning a high enough profit for the current owners to keep it in business. No amount of signatures can change this now.
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#16SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/7/14 at 10:25pm
So, find a white knight who wants to "belong" to the theatre crowd and persuade him to take it on.
No I'm not joking. Recently a great Toronto Music spot The El Mocambo (TheElMo) was slated to close its doors, they put it's iconic neon palmtree sign up on Ebay. And lo and behold a white night by the name of Michael Wekerle (a gonzo style venture capitalist banker) plunks down 3.7 mill promising refurbishment rooftop patio etc breathing new life into this fleabag institution. It didn't hurt Wekerle; is a wanna be guitarist .
So go find a big bucks venture capitalist and persuade him he'll have access to all the doers and makers and schleppers in the theatre biz.
#17SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/8/14 at 11:16pm
Join the Facebook group to save Cafe Edison at the link below:
FACEBOOK: Save Cafe Edison
#18SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/8/14 at 11:18pm
Just now on NBC News for New York: "Times Square needs all the good food it can get."
#20SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/8/14 at 11:40pm
Christine Pedi commented on a link.
16 mins ·
Just had the Matzo Ball soup there tonight on my way to 1/2 hour for NEWSIcal. Why change the format & make it all fancy. Why not just keep it open longer so us theatre folk have a place to go for some great comfort food after theatre. All the reasonably priced hang outs are gone. I was wracking my brain last night for a place to have a burger & a chat with an old friend after theatre that was nearby, affordable and have a table free. The Edison shouldn't revamp it's name & demographic it should EMBRACE what it already has and improve it. What could be better then a clientele that LOVES you and cherishes you and SUPPORTS you!
StephieElise
Featured Actor Joined: 11/12/12
#21SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/9/14 at 4:34amI somehow don't think the post written by 'Sean Connery' was written by 007 Sean Connery. It's not exactly what I would expect a respected actor would post online under his own name. If you really want to look for it, it refers to 'cream cheese'.
#22SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/9/14 at 5:39amPal Joey are you in that screen cap of the news coverage?
elphaba.scares.me
Broadway Star Joined: 10/23/04
#24SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/9/14 at 9:55am
Sorry, but they lost me at "Howard Johnson's." What an overpriced dump that was.
I barely ever go to the Edison Cafe but obviously lots of people want it to stay open. Probably should have seen this coming when the divey Rum House transformed into a mixologist's paradise...
#25SAVE THE EDISON CAFE!!!!!
Posted: 11/9/14 at 10:44amI should have known! Surely you would have been front and centre- and glorious!
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