Saving Café Edison

Signs touting the Twitter campaign to save the café are posted in the diner’s front window, VOA / Jeff Lunden.

The entrance to Café Edison, near New York’s Times Square, VOA / Jeff Lunden.

Carolers joined the rally for the café, singing about matzoh balls in a reworked version of the holiday carol Silver Bells, VOA / Jeff Lunden

Barbara Nassberg shows off a poster protesting the move to close Café Edison, VOA / Jeff Lunden.

The diner’s lunch counter overlooks the busy kitchen, VOA / Jeff Lunden.

Liz Shelton’s protest sign features the Café’s famous blintzes, VOA / Jeff Lunden.

A social media campaign brought out hundreds of diners for weekend lunch, and the line of customers waiting for a table stretched out the door onto the sidewalk, VOA / Jeff Lunden.