Everything Old is New Again............Not Tavern on the Green

Tavern on the Green.  New York City. Tavern on the Green in New York City.  A landmark. A way of life for New Yorkers.  A must place to visit for tourists.  The night before NYC marathon pasta party. The winter nights having dinner while looking at the snow covered park.  The more than Glitzy lighting in the restaurant that made people of all ages want to be there.  The romantic weddings always taken place there. ( In fact, my ex-wife had her first wedding there). Something about Tavern on the Green that made it part of New York, for all New Yorkers.

       Guess what New Yorkers and people around the world.  Tavern on the Green is just another one of those great places that we can only talk about in the past tense, and only remember what was.  It is like the top of the world trade center, Top of the six's , the Rainbow Room, and all the other legendary places that have gone to the land of Going, Going, Gone.

     Tavern on the Green is now Food Truck on the Green.   The site of the closed restaurant officially became home to some of the city's hippest fast food yesterday when four food trucks opened for business on the former Central Park restaurant's grounds. Outside the once famous Tavern is now a Turkish Taco truck, a Soup Truck, a Rickshaw Dumpling Truck, and a Van Leewen ice-cream truck.
I don't know about you, but as a ex-New Yorker who has been there many times..............I am sad.  It never mattered about the food not being great in Tavern on the Green.........it was the part of NY that we all loved.  It was part of the Park.  It was a landmark.  It was gory and glitzy inside.  It was lots of things, but what it really was......................was a part of New York....................I for one am going to miss you.  I hope no-one buys anything from these trucks.  I would rather see it decay before becoming another type of fast food family.

      Food trucks are great, and I have now problem with them, but please, not by my Tavern on the Green.