{"id":251125,"date":"2026-06-01T18:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251125\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:08:26","slug":"the-line-wrapped-around-the-corner-as-the-west-side-said-goodbye-to-another-diner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251125\/","title":{"rendered":"The Line Wrapped Around the Corner as the West Side Said Goodbye to Another Diner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Star on 18 is never quiet on a Sunday. But yesterday the line stretched out the diner\u2019s front door and around the corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/24-Star-on-18-Diner-02946.jpg\" alt=\"Star on 18 Diner last day\" class=\"wp-image-145281\"\/>The line stretched out the door and around the corner on Star on 18\u2019s final Sunday. Photo: David Gray<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presence of that line, and the steady stream of people taking selfies out front, generated its own buzz, and people stopped to ask what the fuss was about, and often joined the line once they knew.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/david-gray\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"David Gray\" src=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cropped-David-Gray-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Gray is a Scots-born, award-winning photojournalist who fell in love with NYC and made it his home. His wanderings in the city are documented on his Instagram: @david_a_gray<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/david-gray\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by David Gray\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Star on 18 is never quiet on a Sunday. But yesterday the line stretched out the diner\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26424,9,11,10,5406],"class_list":["post-251125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-diners","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}