Heading outside the usual coverage zone for a moment... down to Spring and Lafayette, where Tiny Empire is opening its first Manhattan juice shop...
Tiny Empire opened in Williamsburg a few years back.
Here's owner Anthony Spadaro in an interview with Cool Hunting from January:
"I was part of a strange teen angst movement called vegan/straight-edge; ultimately a continuation of punk. We hung out in skate shops, backyard half pipes and health food stores in upstate New York; caused trouble, skated and drank juice (sort of the antithesis of what people think of when they think juice). The activism fell off a while back, but juice has remained pretty constant. I came to the end of a career as a tattooer a few years ago, and it seemed obvious to pursue something based in juice/health, so I opened a juice bar in Woodstock, NY in 2010 (not Tiny Empire), and then Tiny Empire in 2012."
Spring and Lafayette? That's practically the Wall Street area. Are you expanding your coverage now?
ReplyDeleteMidtown Deep South
ReplyDeleteThey come and go here as well. Spring Street Natural, the cultural-culinary cornerstone of this nabe, was just recently forced to move.
ReplyDeleteNice to see you so plugged in, Tiny, but the juice bar craze helped to kill the LES nabe as well. Keep it to tats or skateboard shops and we'll all be happier.
I remember those upstate punks. Two rival vegan/straight edge gangs terrorized a small town after one of their leaders was thrown out of a health food store.
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought this was part of Empire Biscuit. But I was confusing the empires I guess!
ReplyDeleteWake me up when this is over, and luxury living turn to squats.
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