This year saw numerous New York City mainstays fall by the wayside, according to the blog Lost City, which named “Coney Island and New York’s Dive bars… the two biggest victims of this final year of the decade.” Among the fallen famed establishments was the Lower East Side’s Guss’ Pickles, which had been in its former spot at 85 Orchard Street near the corner of Broome Street since 1920, until rising rents forced it to move into Borough Park, Brooklyn. Other informal landmarks saying goodbye were 35-year Chelsea veteran, the Empire Diner, located at 210 10th Avenue between 22nd and 23rd streets, and Coney Island’s 107-year-old Shore Hotel. [Lost City]