Hiding Out from Your Friends with Rebounder’s Dylan Chenfeld
The singer and songwriter takes Josh Mosh to his favorite secret haunt, Landmark Diner.
By Josh Mosh
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This Must Be The Place explores the perfect spots, hidden gems, and secret slash not-so-secret retreats of New York’s luminaries and lunatics.
Hugging the corner of Manhattan’s Centre and Grand streets, Landmark Coffee Shop and Pancake House is an azure relic hiding in plain sight. Squatting on the first floor of a humble two-story brick building (you know those air rights must be crazy), Landmark is an old-school greasy spoon of a diner–a narrow slit of a restaurant too tight for more than one row of tables, the counter space serving as makeshift storage for high stacks of surplus cases of Snapple.
This enviable real estate feels like an anomaly in the chic downtown neighborhood developers are trying to rebrand as Solita. With its wide bright windows wrapping fully around two walls, unassuming interior, and modestly priced plates of basic breakfast foods, the eatery feels almost like an empty shop front set dressed to stand in for some TV show set 30 years ago. In this anachronistic time capsule, I meet up with New York’s own Dylan Chenfield, the musical mastermind behind nostalgic indie pop-rock outfit Rebounder.