A number of restaurants have recently left the New York scene including P. Diddy's place Justin's (which had been open for exactly a decade), Taormina in Little Italy, Tour on 8th Ave., the Goblin Market in SoHo, the Upper East Side outpost of Penang on 2nd Ave., Veliis in Fort Greene and Trattoria Oreste in the Village (it is now Trattoria
Toscana).
As for nightlife venues slipping away, some of the recently departed include Double Happiness and the Palais Royale in Nolita, Remy Lounge in TriBeCa, Luke & Leroy's in the Village and Williamsburg's free-pizza staple Capone's, now being turned into a gay bar by the name of Sugarland.