Sosa’s 39th Street Diner will take over former Nichol’s Lunch location
Anthony Sosa is a man of many talents. The former and future restaurateur — in the 1990s, he owned Sosa’s Cantina in the historic Northeast — now owns a painting and remodeling company. Yesterday, he was on top of a scaffolding with a relative, Paul Tinoco, power-spraying the filthy yellow awning hanging over the entrance to 3906 Waddell, the venue vacated last April by Mama’s 39th Street Diner.
It’s a famous location, this low-slung building facing Southwest Trafficway. For more than eight decades, it was the home of an iconic 24-hour diner, Nichol’s Lunch, which was the early morning breakfast joint for the intoxicated set stumbling home from the midtown bars. When Sosa’s 39th Street Diner opens in December, Sosa says, it will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner so that customers can stumble in at any time of the day or night.
