Glenn Collins/The New York Times The before and after of the corner occupied for six decades by a West Side taproom.
No longer will glassy yellow waves carve majestically from the ship’s prow of the neon P&G Cafe sign at the corner of 73d Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan. After six decades, the jaunty logo — a backdrop to more than a dozen television shows and films — has yielded to a stony gray expanse as blank as a slap in the face.