In case you want to rent the former Tower Records on 4th and Broadway

The news we broke this past week that the Astor Place Starbucks closed after nearly 30 years brought back memories for some people of another nearby business: Tower Records on Fourth Street and Broadway (1983-2006). 

A different broker now has the property. (This is fairly recent, and the listing isn't online yet.) 

The large space, which includes a mezzanine (Blink has the second floor), has been vacant for nearly five years. Build Studio was the last tenant. Previously, it served as the MLB Fan Cave, which closed after four seasons in 2015. 

You can read some history of 692 Broadway here. 

While we always preferred browsing in smaller indie shops, such as the many that once lined St. Mark's Place, including Sounds, Joe's CDs, 13 CDs, Venus Records, Mondo Kim's, Norman's (on Cooper Square), Rockit Scientist Records, etc., we killed a lot of time at this Tower. (We had a friend who worked nearby, and we ducked in here quite a bit while waiting to meet up.)

And ICYMI: Tower Record lives on... online.

By the way, have you seen "All Things Must Pass," Colin Hanks's 2015 documentary about the Tower Records chain? It's right here, courtesy of YouTube...