Yes, the guy at the register wore a fedora, heh-heh-heh. Second, not all gay voters who are Democrats are going to blindly swing their votes because Mike Bloomberg decided to bravely eat Big Gay Ice Cream. I never saw anyone in there, then they closed before 6 months. (I know my miso.) They had a soft opening for their friends with wine then went steadily downhill. They wanted $5 for a miso soup which featured three pieces of tofu the size of dice and a couple shreds of seaweed in a soup made from powder, not paste. Re: high end restaurants, someone made an attempt last year with a pan Asian take-out place run by young Caucasian people on 2nd Avenue between 23rd - 24th Streets. 1st - 2nd, where the pastrami restaurant closed and so did the stationary/gift store, both missed. Not that snooty! I hope the space where Cosmos is now will not meet the fate of the empty storefronts on the uptown side of 23rd btw. Anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety lobbying group will spend at least 60 million to support gun control candidates in 2020, leading the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to declare Last year he bought Virginia, now he’s trying to buy the United States.
Between the two they have an M&T bank, the East End diner, a McDonald's, Bolton's clothing, and a CVS.
A few high end apartment buildings have gone up near the Cosmos diner in the past few years or so, one on the corner of 23rd & 1st Avenue, and one more recently on 23rd St.
