Brian Lair on WNYC.

It's an all call-in show today for this morning before Christmas.

Now a call-in on openings and closings in 2025 that have made you

happy or sad. 212-433 W-NYC, 212-433-9-6-9-2. Listeners, what businesses are you going to miss

that closed in 2025? What opened in your neighborhood this year that made you smile or has quickly become a

neighborhood staple?

212-433 WNYC, call or text, 212, 433, 9692.

It's funny that caller in the previous segment mentioned a common humanity experience she

had at a right aid. This is actually one for me. There was a right-aid I used to go to in my

neighborhood. Had a really nice pharmacist, you know, who gave me COVID vaccines and other stuff.

And all the right age closed.

And it's just a chain, you know, one of those big chain pharmacies,

but they went out of business.

And I miss it a little bit.

I certainly miss the person and a few other people who I interacted around there. So maybe a mundane example. Here are some others

that are probably more personal than a right aid. And like some bars and restaurants really spark

this in people, right? Some longstanding favorites shuttered this year. Here are a few in order

of how long they've been around for. Marlowe and Sons, a breakfast to dinner staple and Williamsburg,

closed after 21 years. And these are from New York City, but by the way, this can be, for any of you

from anywhere, what businesses are you going to miss that closed in 2025 or what

opened in your neighborhood this year that made you smile or has quickly become a neighborhood

staple, 212, 433, WNYC, 433, 9692. So Marlow and Sons in Williamsburg closed. Cafe Gatani, if I'm saying that right,

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