I had a feeling this would happen. So sad to hear this. The last time I was there was for my birthday on 9/11, I took off from work and spent the whole day there. It was glorious. For all the bullshit that NYC is the biggest city in the world, pinball locations are not common here like it appears to be for many of you living elsewhere. And in Queens, where I live, there’s nothing here. I had to trek an hour into the city each way just to feed my addiction... now what?

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Just saw this thread and terrible news!!! Visted there late last year....they were incredibly nice, and I saw so many kids playing.....ugh

One more t-shirt to go in my "never to be worn again" stack. Sad day for pinball.

I don't think you need to retire the T-shirt. If anything you should wear it more to pay your respects.

True I suppose. Memories aren't much good if you can't share them...

amen to that!

very sad to see places close.

Really hate to see places shutting down. I saw it on facebook as well. Pricing for the games is below. No idea what has sold already.

Price list for their games:

TITLE PRICE

Black Hole 3,500
Captain Fantastic 2,500
Deadpool Pro 5,700
Dialed In! Standard Edition 7,250
Fish Tales 4,300
Fun House 5,500
Game of Thrones Pro 5,500
Gorgar (playfield wear) 1,500
Guardians of the Galaxy Pro 5,200
Iron Maiden Pro 5,200
Jackbot 3,750
KISS LE (Limited Edition) w/topper, mods 12,800
Metallica Pro (magnet wear) 4,950
Revenge from Mars (has LCD upgrade) 3,350
Scared Stiff 8,000
Shrek 3,900
Six Million Dollar Man 1,400
Slugfest 2,200
Spider-Man (Stern) 4,550
Star Trek Pro SOLD
Star Trek: The Next Generation 4,950
Star Wars (Data East) 4,900
Star Wars Episode 1 3,150
Terminator 2 3,200
The Addams Family 8,100
The Beatles Gold (signed by Cousin Brucie) 6,900
The Munsters Premium B/W 6,450
The Walking Dead (Pro) 4,950
Wheel of Fortune 3,950
White Water (2 boulders cracked) 4,500
World Cup Soccer 3,450
XENON 2,500

It’s a shame the state and local response is destroying so many small businesses

This is just the tip of the iceberg for NYC

Possibly profitable in his case...lmao!!

wear until it gets worn out, than take it and others and have a quilt made. Unfortunately we are likely to see more closings.

https://memorystitch.com/products/t-shirt-quilt

Lol. Trust me, NOBODY here is thinking about going to NYC. Keep that ban on forever as far as I’m concerned. That should really help spur the NY economy.

Texas is fake news. 3700 deaths out of 30 million people. Obesity, diabetes and kidney failure make up most of that death toll and current situation

It’s pretty much life as normal here and has been that way for quite a while now, thanks to our governor in part

Sadly, my family will probably never make a trip to NYC again due to the crime and lawlessness. You can’t even walk down the street without some thug attacking a woman with a baby in a stroller.

My kids like going, my dad is from Brooklyn, but it’s gonna be a LONG time before I’d even consider it.

Now when the rioters burn you out Levi, being the friendly Texan that I am, will offer you a place of refuge!

Pace Picante did irreparable harm.

But seriously, this inflammatory baseless garbage:

...has no place in the RIP Modern thread, or any thread.

The actual numbers are a lot higher in NY and NJ that is reported.

We were the original hotspot and we didn’t have a fraction of the testing that is going on now. The high for NJ was 4,300 for the day. The real number was probably somewhere between 30-50 thousand. The high for NY was around 11,000. The real number was probably 100,000.

That’s why the virus is dying off in NY and NJ. We have had a hell of a lot more people who had it than what was reported. At least now, the numbers we are seeing are accurate.

It’s actually right on point as to part of the reason they are now out of business and choose not to operate any longer

It’s not just pinball

Bury your head in the sand and blame other people.

This is what I expect. And I’m sure you guys are hard at work to get me moderated/banned

Levi and I give each other shit. Get off your self righteous high horse

What does Willie have to do with this thread?

It’s inflammatory insulting posts targeted at great Texans!

What do u think Yancy

We know, it's cute. But talking baseless shit about an entire city in a thread about one of its arcades closing is, well, it's textbook Iceman.

No. I won't apologize for being a decent person.

Who the hell really knows what's "accurate"? The so-called experts?
I'll be my own expert, thank you!

Poe's Law in action.

Willie Nelson waved to me once in Camden NJ. I was leaving my seat to take a leak and looked back at the stage and he waved right to me.

I’m a federal contractor and have been working with COVID data forecasting since April and I can tell you if you think any of these “experts” or models are accurate, think again. A lot of it is about money. There’s massive dollars flying around right now and it’sa total feeding frenzy.

It's all about money and politics,
and the sheeple just follow along thinking someone is actually concerned about them.

Baseless shit? Spoken for the 100% truth

Levi likes to trash the entire state of Texas. It’s ok though. Thankfully we get to pick where we live

Ding ding ding. We have a winner!

Ya I figured they were trying to pull out max cash at the beginning before maybe dropping prices. Don't blame them at all. Sounds like you know them. I posted the list in the event anyone wanted to pick up something from them.
I was in NY last fall and had one day to go play. We went to sunshine and it was cool, but I wish we had gone to modern.

This thread is actually about a landmark pinball place going out of business, of which is a sad thing.

Maybe the COVID geniuses can debate in the proper thread.

Yeah Mark, you are damn right it’s sad!

It went out of business because of Covid and no chance of future success in that city

Let’s just stand around and whistle Dixie and have small business funerals and do nothing about it except watch it burn.

So maybe the extra bumps will help them sell some pins ffs. If you really want to help buy a pin from them

I’ll leave you righteous brothers to grieve in peace and do absolutely nothing about it

True....that Black Hole kicked my ass that day...where is the fs listing, I'll buy the damn thing!!!

Wasn't the virus. Was the reaction to it.

This period of history will be studied greatly in years to come. Hundreds of books will be written. The first chapter will be how fear, and constantly changing information, and just plain misinformation were used to instill behavioral changes in people that they never consent to do otherwise.

I don't think it's fake. I do think there is an agenda behind some of it especially in the media. The media has pushed the sky is falling narrative and information contradicting that is dismissed or just flat swept under the rug.

When you put the numbers together from what Fauci and the CDC have put out, we have destroyed our economy over a virus that, from what the CDC and Fauci have said, has about a 99.5% survival rate.

The people who keep pushing lockdowns and all the other stuff don't miss a single paycheck. But they have the power to destroy the livelihoods of others.

There are no tin foil hats left! Comrade Deblasio and Cuomo bought em all up

How ironic.

Trust me Levi. They/I am WAY beyond it

I deal with the Covid fallout in the real world, not concerned about what one way people on a one way thread think

Did you follow my advice at the end of March? Nope

how much were these guys paying for their lease? not asking for exact number but what is the cost to lease a small store front ?

How about “See something, DO something”?

I just gave $2500 to tunnel2towers.org last week

New York based charity.

What do any of you DO besides run your mouths?

That’s the kind of person i am. So stick that in your tin foil hat and smoke it

I completely support the right of people to protest. It's about as American as it gets. And I think the agenda of the protests, at least at the beginning, was correct. Unfortunately like most things it has now devolved down to and been hijacked by the "let's just tear shit up" crowd. What's going on now has little to do with social justice and lots to do with anarchy and just plain criminal behavior.

This is where I was going before with the previous post. There were hundreds of thousands of people in the streets night after night, shoulder to shoulder, yelling and screaming. That pretty much coincided with the increase in positive cases if you really believe the tests which is another subject altogether. But this is where the agenda comes in. The media flatly refuses to put ANY blame on the protests and riots. Instead the blame goes on people at the beach or the bar or restaurants or gyms or hair salons. I'm sure there is spread there. But the refusal to assign any blame to the protests is disingenuous and stinks of an agenda. Then when DeBlasio exempts BLM from group gatherings and Gavin Newsom allows protests but shuts down most every thing else the agenda comes into pretty clear focus.

I'm not a Trumpster. Far from it. But once again the American public is instructed to surrender some liberty in the name of safety. As my friend so succinctly said to me, safety is an elusive concept. He's dead right. Nobody ever promised you safety in life just as they never promised you fairness. We've been hung out to dry in the name of safety and told to wait for the vaccine which may never happen. What then? At what point do we say it's time to take our chances in life and demand not only more transparency but accountability from those who have done what has happened here?

As you very well know, there will never be any accountability here for the millions of jobs lost, lives destroyed and countless more to come

A Modern Bar type closing is taking place on every corner

The corrupt media and politicians, who NEVER miss a paycheck will never be held accountable

There is no common sense or critical thinking from the media led masses

You better be living life, I was with an 85 yr friend and client last evening at dinner, in good shape and spirits

His advice, “it’s goes by so fast, get busy living”

I don’t have to buy respect Levi, I’ve earned it brother over many years with my 2000 clients

They love me and my firm!

As for a blowhard throwing around petty $$$?

I Challenge you to DO something positive for your community rather than live on Pinside all
Day

When he would not post prices on Facebook I figured there would be virtual bidding or high prices, obviously the later. I would venture to say there won’t be allot of interest.

I am doing so to the absolute best of my ability. It's not easy given the roadblocks that have been erected. And here in MO we are much less restricted than other places.

Good for you brother! I’m happy to have helped make your day. It’s been fun. I’m off to the shooting range

I’ll be hunting wild hogs tonight that are tearing up my front yard. You city folk don’t have those kind of problems.

Btw, Don’t get mugged on the way back from selling those games