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Losses don't get much more painful than this: The Midtown icon, located in Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, finally closed its doors in July after a protracted back-and-forth with landlord Aby Rosen (that included him trying to renovate the restaurant's gorgeous midcentury modern interiors). Rosen ultimately decided not to renew the restaurant's lease, preferring to bring in a "cool" new tenant—Major Food Group—while the Four Seasons' owners move to a new space a few blocks away. An auction over the summer drastically changed the look of the iconic room, with pieces by Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen, and Ada Louise Huxtable snapped up by wealthy buyers.

Since 1905 New York Central Art Supply, located at 62 Third Avenue at the corner of East 11th Street, has operated under the leadership of the Steinberg family. In a blog post dated July 11, the family announced it will be closing up shop by the end of summer and is in the process of selling off its remaining inventory at steep discounts, as well as entertaining offers to acquire the store’s inventory and intellectual property. The post doesn’t elaborate on who purchased the site, but notes that "[t]he building we have called home since 1905 is being sold and we must vacate it." No sales have hit public record, and the Steinbergs were not immediately reachable for comment.

The massive development taking place on 57th Street claimed another victim: the decades-old Lee's Art Shop at 220 West 57th Street. The art supplies shop will likely be replaced by a single high-end retail tenant like the Ralph Lauren flagship store at East 72nd Street and Madison Avenue. As skyscrapers like One57, and Central Park Tower (in the future) begin to dominate the 57th Street skyline, the nature of retail on the street is changing: Nordstrom set to anchor the lower levels in the latter building. The family that owned the shop doesn't plan to open another location for Lee's once the current one shutters.

The writing had been on the wall for the Ziegfeld for some time, and its time came in January: The charming single-screen movie theater, which had been in operation since 1969, closed for good. The reason? According to Cablevision CEO James Dolan, which operated the theater, it "loses a lot of money." A high-end event space will open in its place.

Thankfully, this East Village icon—a purveyor of funky clothing and accessories to punk icons and tourists alike for more than 40 years—didn't close completely, instead moving to a new storefront on East 7th Street at the beginning of 2016. But rising rents were a factor in the shop's decision to vacate its longtime St. Marks Place home. That building (which was once home to Alexander Hamilton Jr.) later sold for a cool $10 million, and is in the process of getting an LPC-approved restoration.

After an 84-year run, New York City grocery chain D’Agostino is closing its remaining stores. At its peak, the family-owned supermarket operated 26 stores, but over the years, many of the stores shut down, reducing the amount in operation to a single digit. Facing tough competition from chains like Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and the many delivery services that continue to pop up, as well as rising rent prices, the family-owned supermarket chain may be ending its independent run after years of struggling. It's just one of many grocery chains that have disappeared in the past few years.

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New York City’s only Troll Museum is no more. The museum, run by downtown performance artist Reverend Jen Miller out of her Lower East Side home of two decades, was a beloved unofficial landmark that was a remaining vestige of the neighborhood's eclectic underground culture. Rev. Jen, known by some as "The Elf" and to others as the local motherly figure, was blindsided when she was presented with an eviction notice from her home of two decades; she blamed the eviction on her building's rent-stabilized status. The apartment she vacated is just one of three remaining rent-stabilized units in the building. Miller was paying $1,590 a month.

The Bronx will lose one of its beloved gems as the borough’s only major bookstore, Barnes & Noble has announced plans to shutter it doors. The Bay Plaza Shopping center bookstore will close due to a rent increase that will welcome a Saks Off 5th retail store in its place, sparking outrage among Bronx residents. In 2014, the bookstore, which has been open in Bay Plaza since 1999, was nearly forced to close due to the same scenario, but local officials were able to help the chain and the site’s developers come to a common agreement. This time, they weren’t so lucky.