Wednesday, February 8, 2012

That's it for East Village Farms

The folks at East Village Farms on Avenue A stayed open two days past their original Feb. 5 closing date... and by last night, the store was fairly miserable... workers had pulled most everything off the shelves...



They were just selling off the rest of the beer and soda, really... and anything else that you might want to buy — those lousy deli umbrellas, some dinted cans of Libby's products... the fellow working said they were closing after last night... (though I wouldn't be surprised to find them open today...)


Meanwhile, evilsugar25 passed along this photo of Jimmy from behind the deli counter on his last day on Sunday...


He wasn't sure what he was going to do for work. Take a few days off then start looking for another job...

Finally, the flowers will be on sale outside through Feb. 14...


Previously on EV Grieve:
A little bit of Hollywood on Avenue A

East Village Farms is closing; renovations coming to 100 Avenue A

Inside the abandoned theater at East Village Farms on Avenue A

Reader reports: Village Farms closing Jan. 31; building will be demolished
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2012 at 8:34 AM

    Hope Jimmy finds a new gig soon

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2012 at 10:21 AM

    me too, he is fantastic.

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  3. Ken from Ken's KitchenFebruary 8, 2012 at 11:15 AM

    Not like it was. Fewer and fewer Korean vegetable/fruit stands now. It's the same old story, commercial properties are increasingly rented by chains: CVS, Starbucks, Subway, etc. Post-Bloomberg, NYC needs to take control of its neighborhoods by instituting restrictions on chain stores, like San Fransisco has.

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  4. ~evilsugar25February 8, 2012 at 12:07 PM

    Thanks for posting my pic. I'm so sad. I went here every morning for my coffee, and generally did most of my grocery shopping here too. The staff was pretty sad during the last few days. Went in last night about 10:30 and bought a few candles and said my last goodbye. Every time something closes you go, "This is it, this 'hood is over." But this really was the kind of place that made the neighborhood a "neighborhood." *sigh*

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2012 at 1:58 PM

    I think I can see what Ken's Kitchen is saying...it seems like increasingly stores like Duane Reade are stocking fruits and other "fresh" foods. Hell, in most ppl's minds Subway = Fresh. Gradually we are losing are humanity in the quest for more efficient and more predictable. Becoming more rat-like, looking for the easiest button to push. Besides where is the incentive for some would-be grocer to open up shop, scrounge for small margins against high rents, while competing with corporate giants and their economies of scale. The decline of this once cool city is now front and center, nobody in their right mind could deny what is going on here. Yet rents still skyrocket. Fuck.

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