5. Beefburger Fair, 110 East 23rd Street
“Surely everyone has heard of Beefburger Fair,” reads an article in Baruch College’s newspaper The Ticker. “Beefburger also boasts a variety of sandwiches, cold platters, and salads that some people enjoy more than their burgers. Portions are generous and satisfying, especially the tuna and chicken salads.”
Beefburger Fair was a small chain of Manhattan coffee shops in business from 1974 to about 1990. There was not much of Beefburger Fair’s Flatiron District ghost sign after a building covered much of it in 1981. What was left survived for decades but was painted over in recent years.