Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust

[billhoward]

... when I was a student I thought it couldn't get any worse in Collegetown

As the number of bars goes down, rental rates go up. I was leafing through Collegetown rental sites, they seemed outrageous. But then I see Cornell dorms are $9,000-$12,000 for the year.

[George64]

Yet, Moosewood survives!  NY Times article.

[David Harding]

A new food truck in Collegetown.  Roman-style vegetarian pizza made by a native.  https://ithacavoice.com/2022/10/adelinas-brings-mobile-roman-style-pizza-to-collegetown/

[billhoward]

A new food truck in Collegetown.  Roman-style vegetarian pizza made by a native.  https://ithacavoice.com/2022/10/adelinas-brings-mobile-roman-style-pizza-to-collegetown/

Adelina's, the new food truck David mentions, is parked in front of The Nines when I walked by Sunday morning. College Avenue feels as if a third of the buildings on the far (downhill) side of Dryden Road are being turned to rubble and then taller apartment buildings replace them.

[David Harding]

Thanks for the photo.
You're certainly right about the downhill side being redeveloped.  https://ithacavoice.com/2021/09/plans-submitted-for-catherine-commons-collegetown-development/  This article is from a year ago, but it's the best overview rendering I've seen.  There is more work to the south (left) in another project.

[upprdeck]

My take from the last common council meeting is that there will never be a comeback for Joes now thats is planned to be knocked down for yet another set of appts..   I miss the Italian places around town from 20 or so years ago.  Joes, Napolis, The Coddington, Lucatellis etc..  Is there any good Italian in town any more?

[CU2007]

My take from the last common council meeting is that there will never be a comeback for Joes now thats is planned to be knocked down for yet another set of appts..   I miss the Italian places around town from 20 or so years ago.  Joes, Napolis, The Coddington, Lucatellis etc..  Is there any good Italian in town any more?

Gola is your best best, IMO. Close to campus too

[billhoward]

Joe's the last – five, ten (twenty?) – years ago didn't seem quite like the Joe's of ... cripe, well that was forty, fifty years ago when we first ate there. Our tastes in Italian dining have changed.

[David Harding]

An undergraduate laments the lost Collegetown bar scene.  https://cornellsun.com/2022/11/03/kempff-we-need-more-college-bars/

Collegetown feels filled by the ghosts of the bars that once were there.

[The Rancor]

The drinking age should return to 18. It's crazy that it is 21 in this country.

[upprdeck]

Hey the Burger king closed up at East Hill..  Down to 1 wendys in town, no BKs, no Pizza huts, no Friendlies, only 2 Mac Ds, lost the subway at East hill but still about 4-5 of those left. At least the KFC came back after about 20 yrs

[billhoward]

Hey the Burger king closed up at East Hill..  Down to 1 wendys in town, no BKs, no Pizza huts, no Friendlies, only 2 Mac Ds, lost the subway at East hill but still about 4-5 of those left. At least the KFC came back after about 20 yrs

We should mourn its passing by going for a drink. But where?

Ithaca is also about middle-class townspeople (or stoned students late at night) who want something comforting and with a special sauce.

[Iceberg]

The drinking age should return to 18. It's crazy that it is 21 in this country.

Yeah, it would certainly eliminate much of the "mystique" around drinking that doesn't exist in many other countries where the age is 18 or 19. This soft prohibition encourages many 17-20 year olds to overindulge in secret, less safe environments during their college years and I've never really seen the benefit in that for anyone--the students, the administration, parents, law enforcement, businesses...

[Cop at Lynah]

It's relocating over across the street neat the Dunkin Doughnut building.  The Mirabato gas station is also moving across the street.

[upprdeck]

Do you mean the BK is moving?

Thats a strange thing to do and also be closed for a yr while they build.