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2 days agoNolita's Cafe Gitane Has Closed
The original Cafe Gitane at 242 Mott Street in Nolita, opened in 1994, has closed after more than 30 years and is now boarded up.
In its 1990s heyday, Cafe Gitane was an impossibly hip place where it wasn't uncommon to run into David Bowie or Helena Christensen during brunch. Opened by Luc Lévy, a former cabdriver from Paris by way of Casablanca, the Nolita cafeteria remained a regular stop for celebrities - sightings of Michelle Williams and Spike Jonze were reported into the 2010s - as well as, as this magazine once put it, "other people with lots of free time to steal glances at each other."