Monday, February 28, 2022

A cafe-coffee shop in the works for Houston and Allen

Photos by Stacie Joy

Renovations continue behind the plywood at 200 Allen St., that thin strip of a storefront on the SE corner of Houston...
Workers at the scene told EVG contributor Stacie Joy that a cafe-coffee shop was in the works for the space, though they didn't have the name of the business...
Eastanbul Gyro Kebab and Smyrna Bakery closed here last fall. Empire Gyro, with a 24/7 schedule, opened here in February 2019 ... with the conversion to Eastanbul (and Smyrna) in the summer of 2020. The space was previously Sugar Cafe for 10 years. 

And once upon a time! Economy Foam (and later, & Futon) anchored the corner from 1937 to 2003...

4 comments:

JAMES said...

I miss the Economy bedding store there. A long-time and true Icon of the Lower East Side. I was amazed when it went out and magically 5 new stores appeared where their 'warehouse'(?) used to be .

Anonymous said...

I miss the foam store!

Anonymous said...

Economy Foam Center photo by David Monderer.

Anonymous said...

I bought my first futon there in 1981. Those were the days, when I could essentially sleep on the floor and get up in the morning from a position three inches off the ground.