Friday, July 26, 2024

Hottie Lash checks into 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place

Hottie Lash is the new tenant for the second-level retail space on the northwest corner of St. Mark's Place and Second Avenue (133 Second Ave., aka 37 St. Mark's Place). 

While it sounds like a solid roller derby name, this is a salon for eyelash extensions, which takes over the address from Taiji Body Work. 

Previously, 8-Bit and Up, the retro video shop, was upstairs before moving to Third Street in the fall of 2013

And as we've posted before... this 1990s upstairs-downstairs combo...
The above photo is by Barry Joseph and was published in Ada Calhoun's book "St. Marks Is Dead."

P.S. 

The Gap was on the ground floor from 1988 to 2001.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good name for an S&M club

Anonymous said...

I remember going to see movies at the St. Marks movie theater that used to be at that location. Now that is really going back in time.

Anonymous said...

It was also the site of the St Marks Playhouse which housed the founding of the Negro Ensemble Company https://necinc.org/the-history-of-nec/

Shadowwhispers said...

I prefer the original pronunciation of "Hootie Lash."

2ndAvenueSilverPanther said...

I thought the neighborhood went to hell when the St Marks movie theater raised the price for showing 2 movies from $1 to $3.

Mark Hand The Catchman said...

I miss St Marks Theater … spent so many days of my youth sneaking in through the fire exit on St Marks place watching movies and staying out of my parents hair

Barry Joseph said...

I took that photo in July of 1995. That month I also took out videos from Kim's for my first date with my now wife.