When one imagines that a talent that great and a person with that much inner and outer beauty could have had obstacles simply because of the color of her skin, it makes me weep."
It captures something essential about Prime Burger, a shopworn space which was last updated in the 1960s: It represents not just a business but a sort of home, to loyal staff like the ageless Eddie Adams, who baked there for 63 years and produced a sweet potato pie that could make hard men weep, and to generations of lost-and-gone New Yorkers like me.