time. The Manhattan Dubrow's was the site of the American Playhouse production "The Cafeteria", based on the short story (today online here) by Isaac Bashevis Singer, which was featured on PBS. The last Dubrow's, located in the Garment District in Manhattan, closed in 1985. Dubrow's Cafeteria in popular culture A photograph by Garry Winogrand entitled "Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Campaign, New York, 1960" features Dubrow's prominently. The novel Subway Music by Reynold Junker features a nostalgic passage about Dubrow's being gone The poem "Waitress" by Jason Shinder claims to be set in Dubrow's, though there were no waitresses in Dubrow's. The poem "You Could Live If They Let You" by Wallace Markfield features the lines "As I might speak of e. e. cummings enormous room or Swann's Madeline you speak of Dubrow's Cafeteria and Mallomars." Ivan Koota did several paintings of Dubrow's in his collection of works depicting his native Brooklyn. Dennis Ziemienski has a painting of Dubrow's Cafeteria. Parts of the 1979 Film "Boardwalk" were filmed on location in the Dubrow's Cafeteria pictured above in this article shortly after it closed. The novel Revolutionaries by Joshua Furst references a character who is the wife of Abby Hoffman scrounging for food at Dubrow's in Manhattan. External links Compilation of Dubrow's stories, memories, photographs, and paintings assembled by Benjamin Dubrow's great granddaughter, Eve Lyons References Restaurants established in 1929 1985 disestablishments in New York (state) Defunct restaurants in New York City Cafeteria-style restaurants Defunct restaurant chains in the United States 1929 establishments in New York City