[VIDEO] Mooney DashCam is another YouTube channel that has become something of a guilty pleasure as of late. He has a knack for visiting various sites around New York, New York where infamous events took place. In this case he's visiting a film setting a now closed diner in Queens.
This diner was seen in two parts of the movie, one part is referenced in the title. Jimmy Conway and film protagonist Henry Hill are waiting at the diner, Conway goes out to the phone booth and finds out that their hotheaded associate Tommy DeVito was in fact murdered (or "whacked" in mob parlance). Conway and Hill expected DeVito to be a made man in the mob and because of his role in the murder of another made man he paid for that with his life.
I don't want to get too much into it, just go watch Goodfellas. If you like gangster movies or crime drama it's worth it.
Another scene that took place in the diner was when Hill had been arrested by police and seeking support from his former mob associates. He meets with Burke there again and Hill gets a paranoid feeling from Burke. He realizes that the moment that you're killed in that life usually it's the ones you trust the most who'll do you in. So with this scene Burke wants Hill to go on some run into Florida, Hill realizes there is a good chance we might not come back from Florida alive. This leads to him flipping on his former associates.
It's too bad this diner is no longer in business, they could play off on the reference to Goodfellas. And Mooney DashCam looks inside the place and sees it's largely the same from how it looked in the movie. It's almost as if it just closed yesterday.
In 2018 the diner was reportedly destroyed due to a fire. As you see here it remains standing just not open for business.
