The Donut Pub, 14th Street and 7th Avenue
99 cents for a boston cream to be exact. I had a tough time deciding between the boston cream and an old-fashioned sugar donut. I think by "old-fashioned" they mean cake donut. We have Tien's nighttime photo to thank for my daytime visit yesterday.
It has not been a good couple of weeks for old-time donut shops. The great Old Fashioned Donuts at 86th and Lexington recently closed. I rarely visit the Upper East Side, but when I got off the subway at 86th Street I made a point of getting a glazed donut at Old Fashioned. No more. I also noticed that the donut place at 116th and Lexington has also closed within the past couple of weeks. They never seemed too busy. The one time I got a donut there it was stale. I wonder if anyone would mind if their Hershey's Ice Cream sign were to be liberated?
Oh, take a closer look at the window above "The":
I never noticed it before processing the picture but that's a nice stained-glass window. I wonder if it is from the original construction?
only 99 cents?? damn, i should have gone in.
Posted by: tien | 20 March 2006 at 09:17 AM
i hope you do rescue the ice cream sign. i see signs all over the place that i want to 'liberate', but don't have the nerve.
i can't quite believe that taking a sign from outside an empty shop is 'stealing'. is it?
Posted by: isabel | 20 March 2006 at 11:34 AM
Maybe I'll bring a tape measure and look like I'm doing some actual work on the place. That way people will think I'm supposed to be there, but actually I'm just librating the sign. Then again, maybe I'll just take a picture.
Posted by: joe | 20 March 2006 at 10:42 PM
i vote for actually taking the sign. go for it. i bet no one would bat an eye. (this is me, the gutless one, talking.)
Posted by: isabel | 21 March 2006 at 11:16 AM
What is a permanent French manicure? It's mentioned right there on a little sign next to the really neat stained glass window.
Posted by: Kaleberg | 26 March 2006 at 11:14 PM
Good question. There's something about the 'permanent' that would make me think twice about getting one.
Posted by: joe | 27 March 2006 at 07:24 PM
(being a westsider) I hadn't discovered until today that the 86th st. donut spot was closed, and I am devastated.
someone please tell me they have relocated?
Posted by: jay smooth | 20 June 2006 at 10:45 PM