Park Slope 7th Ave Diner Park Cafe Closes After 2 Decades

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Another Seventh Avenue staple has shut its doors in Park Slope. The longtime diner Park Cafe is permanently closed after more than two decades in the neighborhood, Brownstoner reports.

A photo sent into Brownstoner shows that the "store hours" sign in the window of the 82 Seventh Ave. storefront now reads "Closed Permanently. Thank you loyal patrons."

The tipster said that the closing came suddenly, as the diner was just open on Monday.

“Yesterday all was as usual. No word of closing. Now they are gone for good,” he said in an email to Brownstoner Tuesday night.

A call to Park Cafe on Thursday went unanswered. The diner's website on EatStreet also had a notice that the restaurant is "currently closed."

The business is the latest in several longtime Park Slope spots that are closing down, including multiple spots on Seventh Avenue.

The Old Carriage Inn, a longtime staple on Seventh Avenue, closed its doors for good on St. Patrick's Day after 35 years in the neighborhood. The family-owned bar, which first opened in 1975, had sold its building and couldn't afford to stay and rent the space, owner Dorothy Waggelman said.

Another Seventh Avenue staple The Clay Pot announced just a week before The Old Carriage Inn that it would be closing its Brooklyn space after 50 years. The jewelry store will focus on its Manhattan location, instead, owners said.

On other major avenues in the neighborhood, longtime gay bar Excelsior recently closed its doorson Fifth Avenue after 20 years in the neighborhood.

The Pacific Bar announced that it would close down its Fourth Avenue spot after 12 years in the neighborhood and, last spring, a grocer that had been in the area for nearly five decades shutdown.

Popular watering hole Kings Beer Hall also shut its doors back in April, although owners hinted that the bar might be opening somewhere else soon.