Openings: Salter House on 2nd Street

Photos by Stacie Joy

Salter House, a shop offering sustainable housewares and clothing, opened an outpost earlier this month at 34 E. Second St., just west of Second Avenue.

Former East Village residents Sandeep Salter and her husband, Carson, opened the first Salter House in 2017 in Brooklyn Heights.

Here's more about the EV storefront via ArchDigest...

Dating back to the 1900s, the former tenement building has a series of past lives, from a headquarters for a revolutionary political group in the '70s to the Russian music bar previously known as Anyway Cafe. 

"One of the things that we really loved when we cleaned up the space was this floor from when it had been a barber shop," says Sandeep. "It's lived so many lives, and when you spend time in here, you can feel that. It’s this charming cellar spot that’s been a storefront for 200 years and has seen so many things."

During the demolition period, which took nearly three months to complete, they uncovered original cobalt and white metro hex tiles from the 1930s underneath low-quality layers of linoleum tile, glue, and cement. "Once we saw that, it changed our whole idea of what the space would look like, and we just went with that," Sandeep recalls.

And here's a look inside the 450-square-foot shop...

Hours: Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 7 p.m.

The previous tenant here, Anyway Cafe, closed this past February after 28 years.