From Newsday.com | April 22, 2008

A classic railcar-style diner that closed recently after losing its Manhattan home is being reborn in Brooklyn.

The Cheyenne Diner is relocating to the Red Hook neighborhood on the waterfront after a construction manager purchased it for $5,000.

The chrome-covered eatery near Penn Station closed earlier this month after 19 years in business to make way for a nine-story residential and commercial building.

Landlord George Papas says the buyer of the diner has enlisted a professional who restores diners for a living to move and refurbish it.

No opening date has been set.

The Washington Post has a strong dislike of anyone excerpting their articles, so I will bow to the WaPo's powerful influence and only create one tiny, harmless hyperlink to a recent article which very much captures that diner "thing" that it is so often hard to describe, but, like pornography, you know it when you see it....

LaBarge, WY
Finally, the Moondance Diner is starting to resemble a diner again.

The new foundation is poured, the walls are up, and the barrel-ceiling roof is being installed in Wyoming's newest dining icon -- the famed Moondance Diner that relocated from New York City to this tiny town in southwest Wyoming last summer.

Reconstruction and renovations are moving along, new owner Cheryl Pierce said Friday.

"We have a roof structure, four walls are up, and we're doing quite well now, actually, and we're progressing nicely," she said.

"We've had some nice weather, which has been a huge help ... and a huge help for morale as well," Pierce said. "People are getting more excited about it with the warm weather... People are starting to stop by and stuff."

Despite having survived nearly a century of service, a close call with the wrecking ball, a 2,400-mile cross-country trek from New York City to Wyoming, and heavy damage from a January snowstorm that nearly derailed the whole endeavor, the new eatery could open in early summer, Pierce said.

"We're still shooting for a June opening, but that's just a goal to shoot for," she said. "We're hoping we can make that goal. We're taking it one day at a time."

Obama visits a real PA diner