Second Hand Rose has apparently closed on 12th and Broadway

[Photo by Alex]

Alex at Flaming Pablum shares the news that Second Hand Rose, the collectible record shop on 12th and Broadway, has closed.

The place opened on 14th Street and Sixth Avenue in 1977 ... moving to a small storefront across the street from the Strand in 2000.


[Image via Second Hand Rose]

I always hate to see record shops close... though there wasn't much immediate lost love for Rose. As Alex wrote, "I was never a fan of the place — disorganized, dusty, strangely overpriced and pointedly surly."

And they didn't really like sick people shopping in the store...


[Photo by Alex]

Piola gives way to Ribalta

A little off the usual course... over on East 12th Street just off Broadway... that pizza place Piola closed back in February...

According to a post dated Feb. 25 on the Piola New York Facebook page:

To our valued customers: the restaurant is undergoing reconstruction. The new restaurant will reopen in mid march in the same place. Thank you very much for your continued support, we are looking forward to seeing you soon!

The new place is now open... something called Ribalta, and its apparently the first U.S. branch of an Italian chain of sorts...

Grub Street had the place by the numbers on Friday: "[T]here are 90 seats, 25 different pizzas, three ovens (for three various styles), two highly decorated master pizzaioli ... and one on-premises pizza school, plus antipasti, pasta, and Stumptown-enhanced tiramisu for dessert."