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Dozens of Mets since the early 00s have lived in the City Lights building in Long Island City. At one time that was the only waterfront tower, today there are probably 20.



But the Mets at one time had a deal with the building and routinely put guys up there, new & young guys particularly.


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Dozens of Mets since the early 00s have lived in the City Lights building in Long Island City. At one time that was the only waterfront tower, today there are probably 20.



But the Mets at one time had a deal with the building and routinely put guys up there, new & young guys particularly.


Details?



I know there was a motel on the north side of Queens Boulevard, a low-rent sort of place, that housed new Mets (and not-so-new Mets who didn't care to move) in the 1960s. Not there anymore, but I used to drive past it all the time. Forget what it was called--I'll ransack my memory.


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If this doesn't turn into an all-purpose Boyhood Homes of the Mets or Places Mets Have Lived thread, I will be steeply disappointed.


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As mentioned previously, when my family first moved to Long Island, we had the Ray Sadecki family living five doors down. The house — 230 Princeton Road, Rockville Centre, NY — is still more or less the same color.



Zillow estimates its market value at $1,084,700. I don't know if that is before or after the Sadecki factor is applied.



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Call me, Suzy!


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Edgy MD wrote:

If this doesn't turn into an all-purpose Boyhood Homes of the Mets or Places Mets Have Lived thread, I will be steeply disappointed.


I'm more comfortable with it being a catch-all for businesses a Met employee had some involvement with, even if it's just licensing a name to.



We are dealing with, for the most part, save for the commercial storefront on street level of apartments, private homes years and even decades removed from when the person(s) known to us resided there.



A little bit more creepy, though granted less potentially pervy, than the Wifey-Watch threads.


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Did any of us ever patronize Rusty Staub's restaurant? I always meant to but didn't. Now I can't even remember where it was. Upper East Side somewhere?


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73rd St (IIRC)

He also had a second one in midtown for a short period.

Then both closed. I remember him citing rising rent costs.



Went to the UES one several times and the (fancier) midtown one once.


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I assumed the Polo Grounds was Kranepool's boyhood home.


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Did any of us ever patronize Rusty Staub's restaurant? I always meant to but didn't. Now I can't even remember where it was. Upper East Side somewhere?


Sadly they both closed before I turned 21.



For a while wasn't his name slapped on the beer and food concession stand hugging the RF corner of Shea's field concourse level? That was long gone by April of 1998 as well

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UES was 73rd and 3rd, (1271 3rd Ave) It's been https://ejsluncheonette.com/EJ's Luncheonette since 1992, in my next post…maybe, I'll see if it directly replaced Rusty's, but IIRC Rusty left that location a few years earlier. 1992 sounds right for when Rusty's on 5th did… Speaking of which…



Rusty's on 5th, 5th (duh) and 47th, (575 5th Avenue)

Recent Google Street View of the spot shows work on the former Guess clothing shop that hugged the corner, and a Starbucks.



Oh, while I was doing that, I saw that the original Rusty's did shutter in 1991, so EJ's obviously must have gobbled up the space as soon as it was available. Not a clue, yet anyway about Guess' (no research puns intended) time in that address on 5th, and what's to become of that retail space.


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My wife and I went to Rusty's once. We were just married and it was a little pricy for us at the time. I was expecting more of a sports bar kind of thing and not fine dining. But it was really good.



There was a lower level in kind of an atrium and you could see inside. I walked through there another time and Keith and Ron Darling were at a table.


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My wife and I went to Rusty's once. We were just married and it was a little pricy for us at the time. I was expecting more of a sports bar kind of thing and not fine dining. But it was really good.

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[bLOCKQUOTE]Of course the Mets had a bar entitled Casey's 37 in the back of home plate on the Mezzanine Level for years.[/bLOCKQUOTE]



I believe Casey's 37 was on the Loge Level.


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The original Rusty's was on the NE corner of Third Avenue and East 73rd Street. When that Rusty's closed, the space was taken over by E.J.'s Luncheonette, which is still there, some almost 35 years later.



There's an old episode of The White Shadow filmed on location on the Upper East Side in the vicinity of the original Rusty's. ICoach Reeves was filmed walking north on Third Avenue. I think that the restaurant might've appeared in the bqckground.


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Coach Reeves came to New York for two episodes in season three. It was for his high school reunion, which conflicts with his original canonical backstory of being an alum of Carver HS, the LA school he is coaching for, but such is TV.


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Why were they in New York?

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The one piece of 'decor' I remember from Rusty's on 73rd was a framed and sequenced set of all 23 seasons of Rusty baseball cards.

The one sports celeb I recall seeing there from my handful of visits, aside from the patron himself, was NYG Harry Carson.

He was a tough guy to miss or mistake for someone else in those days; very distinctive looking, very large, and very dark skinned.


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