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The White Castle at 57th Avenue in Queens has shuttered after 90 years in business, with condominiums planned for the site and locals marking the loss with the kind of grief typically reserved for something more consequential.
Karen Bartolo, a neighborhood regular who spoke to local news outside the closed location, delivered a farewell that resonated far past the borough.
90 Years, Then Condominiums Nine decades of operation ended when the 57th Avenue location served its last slider, making way for residential development.
For Bartolo and others who had built routines around the place, the closure removes one of the last unchanged fixtures in a neighborhood that has shifted considerably around it.
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