Flamingos Vintage Pound returns to the East Village with new St. Mark’s Place outpost

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Flamingos Vintage Pound announced that the brand is opening an outpost on the lower level at 4 St Mark's Place just east of Third Avenue. 

This marks a return to the neighborhood for Flamingos, which charges by the pound (for the clothes you want to purchase, not your personal weight). 

Flamingos, which has more than 40 locations in the U.S. and abroad, previously had stores on First Avenue near Ninth Street and on 11th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue. (There was also one on Stanton Street.) All three didn't survive the pandemic, with the First Avenue store being the last to shut down in the fall of 2021. 

As for the retail space at No. 4, Wanyoo, Asia's largest gaming café chain, was at a lower level for a minute but never reopened after the pandemic started in March 2020. Then, there was a bar-cafe called Lava Ground, a business that seemed to be open sporadically before disappearing.

The storefront on the upper level is currently Art Gotham. The gallery was using the lower level for Saint Marks Art.

Until February 2016, 4 St. Mark's Place housed Trash & Vaudeville for 41 years. The store relocated to 96 E. Seventh St. in 2016.

The Hamilton-Holly House (aka 4 St. Mark's Place), built in 1831, was once owned by Alexander Hamilton's son. The landmarked building, which changed hands for $10 million in the spring of 2016 for $10 million, also underwent a gut renovation and expansion.