Friday, December 20, 2013

What has happened to East Village Shoe Repair?



That's the question the Confidential columnists at the Daily News are asking today. The sliver of a shoe-repair shop on St. Mark's Place at Third Avenue rather abruptly closed before Thanksgiving, as we first noted here.

And there is some fallout from this closure. To Confidential:

Model Francesca Vuillemin is one of several lower Manhattan tastemakers who recently popped into East Village Shoe Repair to pick up shoes. Hers were pairs by Balenciaga and Miu Miu that she’d left for repairs. She estimates the kicks were worth $700.

Vuillemin had been told by the store’s proprietors many times since September that the repairs were behind schedule and had been asked to come back another time.

An EVG reader heard from proprietor Boris Zuborev that they would reopen in the David's Shoe Repair storefront on East Seventh Street. (The for rent sign is off that space.) We haven't heard anything else about this.

The Daily News tried to contact Boris, but "two calls to a number registered to [him] resulted in a pair of angry hangups."
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5 comments:

  1. Marty WombacherDecember 20, 2013 at 9:50 PM

    Did the landlord give them the boot? What a heel! Sorry, but that's shoe business! (Okay, I'll stop now!)

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  2. bjDecember 21, 2013 at 10:53 AM

    Isn't this from a Seinfeld episode?

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  3. AnonymousDecember 21, 2013 at 12:22 PM

    Louboutin heels are the new GLD

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  4. THE NOTORIOUS L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N.December 21, 2013 at 5:09 PM

    @Marty Ugg!

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  5. Marty WombacherDecember 22, 2013 at 2:10 PM

    @ THE NOTORIOUS L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N: Ha ha ha!

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