They walked along on the avenue, close to one another in the refreshing air.
The last Automat (there were several successor imitations), at East 42nd Street and Third Avenue, closed in 1991.
MARS BAR, the dive joint on the first floor of 11 Second Avenue, closed last week amid ballyhoo.
(Rope, the actual model of the unnamed bar described as "studiously dingy" on Myrtle Avenue, closed in 2012; Hot Bird has the same owner).
Scientists found long ridges in the chalk beneath the turf covering the final leg of the Stonehenge Avenue, close to the stone circle.
A wide avenue close to the church, flanked by beeches and poplars, offers a mock grandiose path sweeping up to the wood itself.
But the Secret Service has strongly argued in favor of keeping the avenue closed, saying it sharply reduces the risk of a car bomb explosion within close range of the White House offices.
The automats soldiered on for 40 more years -- the last one, at 42nd Street and Third Avenue, closed its doors exactly 12 years ago today -- but the golden age of the famous restaurant chain was over.
The avenue, close to exclusive Highgate and Hampstead, is home to Richard Desmond, owner of Express Newspapers and Channel 5, members of the Saudi royal family, and Poju Zabludowicz, a billionaire art collector and philanthropist.
Concluding that "the stock of work in the economy is not fixed", the report cites the surge in hairdressers as evidence that where one avenue closes in the jobs market, others open.
