diner

There’s a lot of scenes in diners where he’s sitting with one arm over the back of the booth ... ... like he’s on his way out almost all the time.

But not Blank Street which began in 2020 as a tiny coffee cart in the garden of a Brooklyn diner before expanding across New York, Washington and Boston.

After a series of high-profile incidents — including the armed robbery of a diner’s $500,000 watch at a local restaurant — the city beefed up patrols and security details.

Even in a moment of respite, when Roman takes Hank to a late-night diner for her favorite black and white cookie, the director has instructed the server to hurl the plate at her dismissively.

The restaurant-reservation service company found that the volume of seated diners from online reservations was down every day last week compared with the same time period in 2024.