The Subway Inn opened in 1937 across from Bloomingdale’s on Manhattan’s East Side. It’s a bar that became legendary for many well-deserved reasons, from its stunning neon, its dive-bar bonafides, its link to celebrities like Marilyn Monroe (she was known to have a drink here back in the day). The bar’s inevitable confrontation with Manhattan’s cruel real-estate realities gave us all a scare several years ago, but the inn beat the odds and, rather than close, moved to a new location, and took the neon sign along with it. I shot the first photo outside the original location in 2011, and the second features that same #fontastic sign glowing at the new home at East 60th Street and Second Avenue. It’s wonderful that the Subway Inn is still here, that a small but important part of the New York that Marilyn Monroe knew, was saved. #retrologist
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