A quaint, petite building with a marble facade on East 79th Street?which once housed a branch of iconic sweet shop/eatery Schrafft's and later an antiques store?has been razed. A reader wrote to Lost City: "This was a charming one story building, set between two residential buildings, that was a kind of white stone, art-deco castle... This little treasure should have been preserved." Massey Knakal, which brokered the sale of the building, says the site will be used for (surprise!) residential development, which "underscores the current strength of the redevelopment taking place on East 79th Street." Sorta sad. [Lost City]
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