Aiah peers into windows as she walks and finds the black-and-red Wire sticker in the flyspecked window of a corner diner.

It was a comfort to see that the corner diner where I would go with dates after the movies was still there.

Ms. Maier, an administrative assistant with a foundation, meets friends at a comfortable corner diner.

Only the corner diner, now temporarily on 23rd Street, will return; it plans to lease 1,200 square feet within the 7,200 square feet of new ground-floor retail space.

Or breakfast at the corner diner.

Last week I canned five gallons of tomato sauce while crying to stories about the occupation of Iraq on the radio, then flirted with a cute woman at the corner diner.

And the chain coffee store that replaces the corner diner may charge $1.25 a cup, far more than its predecessor did.

Sung a cappella, it offers a moment-by-moment series of impressions of life inside a corner diner on a rainy morning.

There he was, head of a department that frowns on an officer taking so much as a tuna fish sandwich from the corner diner.

They look back from behind the cashier's shoulder at the corner diner, from the corridors of Pennsylvania Station, from a small memorial near the Hudson River's lapping banks.