Rudy's For Rent

A reader sent in this shot of Rudy's Music Stop, now officially with a For Rent sign.

I first reported on the shop's closure in July, a penultimate nail in the coffin of West 48th Street as Music Row.



This little building and its neighbor are likely to be demolished, so why the "for rent" sign? And why only the upper floors? Is there a chance Rudy's will stay in some diminished form?