Beloved Park Slope Diner Resurrected On Netflix

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — An iconic Park Slope diner that shuttered last year was (briefly) resurrected on the Netflix screen.

Dizzy's Diner, which stood on the corner of Ninth Street and Eighth Avenue for 22 years before closing amid the pandemic, makes an appearance on "Inventing Anna," a Netflix mini-series about Anna Sorokin, a socialite of her own making who defrauded banks, hotels, and Manhattan's elite of hundreds-of-thousands of dollars.

Less than 10 minutes into the first episode, Vivian Kent, the fictional journalist played by Anna Chlumsky and inspired by Jessica Pressler — whose 2018 New York magazine feature about Sorokin is the basis of the series — gets off the subway in Park Slope.

The camera pans out as Kent walks up the Seventh Avenue station steps, briefly showing Dizzy's Diner on the far right side of the screen; filmed in 2019, the diner is open, with people inside.

While the show has reportedly stretched the truth of the story (Pressler actually lives in Queens, for instance), Park Slope locals said on Facebook that they were excited to see the neighborhood on Netflix — especially since it momentarily brought Dizzy's back to life.

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