Tom's Restaurant is a New York City diner located at 2880 Broadway between W. 112th and W. 113th in Morningside Heights. It has been owned and operated by the Greek Minasizoulis family since the 1950s. In 1997, the rival Greek diner on the same block, the College Inn, closed. (The building also houses NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.) Seinfeld restaurant, 2000, by Rick Dikeman This is actually Toms Restaurant, NYC. Famous as Monks in Seinfeld, and as Toms Diner, in the Suzanne Vega song of that name. ... Seinfeld restaurant, 2000, by Rick Dikeman This is actually Toms Restaurant, NYC. Famous as Monks in Seinfeld, and as Toms Diner, in the Suzanne Vega song of that name. ... Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... US postage stamp, indicating the popularity of the diner. ... A view of Broadway in 1909 Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City, and is the oldest north-south main thoroughfare in the city, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement. ... Morningside Heights is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City and is bound by the Upper West Side, Morningside Park, Harlem, and Riverside Park (some now consider it part of the Upper West Side). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Goddard Institute for Space Studies building. ...

Tom's Restaurant in fiction

Tom's Restaurant was immortalized in Suzanne Vega's 1987 song "Tom's Diner", and would later become a site for pop-culture pilgramage due to the use of its exterior for the diner in the popular television sitcom Seinfeld where Jerry and his friends regularly ate. Early episodes showed the entire neon sign; to avoid royalties, later episodes crop out "Tom's", showing only the "RESTAURANT" wraparound. (Although this claim has been called into question by a Columbia publication's investigative reporting). [1] Suzanne Vega Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer known for her poetic lyrics and eclectic folk inspired music. ... The real Toms Restaurant also appeared in Seinfeld. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Seinfeld was an American television sitcom set in New York City that ran from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998. ... A royalty is a sum paid to the creator of performance art for the use of that art. ...

A quotation from Merideth Sue Willis's 1997 novel Trespassers (set in 1968):

"He knew a restaurant called Tom's, which he said had nothing really bad, and the hand-cut steak fries were top quality. It was a diner with big stainless-steel coffee pots and red vinyl booths. I think I had hoped for something darker and more atmospheric, but after I'd looked around at the coat racks, desserts under glass, the steam in the air, I thought, But this is the real New York, this is what is." (p.60)

References

• Morningside Heights: Tom's Restaurant
• VirtualNYC panoramic image of Tom's Restaurant
• Annie Merner Pfeiffer Library: WV Authors: Merideth Sue Willis