Monday, July 6, 2015

Yoo's Convenience Store — former home of New York's 'best coffee' — becoming a vape shop


[EVG photo from April 2014]

A rent hike ended Yoo's retail life at 50 Second Ave. back in April 2014.

The small shop, which boasted handmade signs touting the Best Coffee in NYC (and it was pretty good), had been on the market for months now here between East Second Street and East Third Street…



Anyway, EVG correspondent Derek Berg passes along word of the new tenant — Cloud 99 vapes…

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9 comments:

  1. blue glassJuly 6, 2015 at 9:53 AM

    the new fro yo
    how many do we need?

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  2. AnonymousJuly 6, 2015 at 12:07 PM

    It's sad that the demand for vape is so popular. Seems to be a fratty hobby. How telling.

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  3. AnonymousJuly 6, 2015 at 2:07 PM

    How can it go out of the business if it's the "best coffee"?

    - East Villager

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  4. marjorieJuly 6, 2015 at 3:00 PM

    Lots of bests go out of business! Betamax was a better technology than VHS! The Dvorak keyboard was better than QWERTY! Firefly got cancelled!

    But seriously, blue glass is right. vape shops are the new brow bars which were the new hookah bars which were the new fro-yo.

    Genug already.

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  5. WalterJuly 7, 2015 at 12:30 AM

    What is a "Vape" Shop ? Old timer here who obviously hasn't been able to keep up with new fads.

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  6. AnonymousJuly 7, 2015 at 10:43 AM

    How many fucking vape stores will there be?!?? This will have a downfall worse than froyo.

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  7. AnonymousJuly 7, 2015 at 11:17 AM

    Vaping is the new status symbol for the rich urban yuppies, esp. and specifically. the hipster techies.

    http://www.newyorker.com/currency-tag/vaping-for-yuppies

    In other words, vape is for the #SioS.

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  8. AnonymousJuly 28, 2015 at 6:47 PM

    Say what you want but I got a great deal on a pax and they spent 30 minutes showing me how to work it and putting my mind at ease.

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  9. AnonymousJanuary 12, 2016 at 6:45 PM

    I smoked for 25 years and bought a vape from thm a month ago and haven't smoked since. The owners are New Yorkers and fit into the neighborhood better than most

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