Wednesday, September 25, 2024

A moment on Avenue A in 1995

Top photo by Stacie Joy 

We've noted some of the 1990s storefront transformation along parts of Avenue A for the Darren Aronofsky-directed crime thriller "Caught Stealing" starring Austin Butler (here ... here... and here). 

The top pic shows Conor's Goat going as (the fictitious) Therline's Coffee Shop at 23 Avenue A at Second Street.

Meanwhile, here's a photo from May 1995 when Margaret's Coffee Shop was the tenant... (photo by Dyske Suematsu)...
Previously on EV Grieve: 
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2024 at 5:40 AM

    Interesting to see Polish morph into Haitian.... is this supposed to be the East Village or Flatbush in the film??? Not really a big Haitian community in the EV...

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    1. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2024 at 2:21 PM

      LOL NOT VERY AUTHENTIC RENDERING OF 1999

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2024 at 8:13 AM

    You can just see the sign for Schneiders Baby Furniture (later WaMu, later Chase, now Fancy NY Deli, Athena's, Martial Arts & Pizza) reflecting in Margaret's window.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2024 at 10:24 AM

    Getting emotional with all these old school EV looking posts. Who ever would have thought that stalwarts like these would be replaced with private equity owned coffee shops. Makes me very happy to be old enough to have experinced the EV when it was an eclectic community, pre-uberpredatory capitalist real estate developers.

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  4. SarahSeptember 25, 2024 at 12:16 PM

    Check out the appliance store sign next door...probably the one that was just replaced!

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2024 at 4:44 PM

    What was next door, where Berlin is today, in 1995?

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