This outpost, which opened in November 2021, will be closing. We hear the lease is up, and management declined to renew, citing the storefront's (alleged) outdated electrical system as the reason for the departure.
Staff will be reassigned to our BS outposts.
This pending closure marks the last of the East Village Blank Street outposts. The V.C.-funded coffee chain also had locations on Third Avenue... First Avenue and in the Bowery Market.
As previously noted, not everyone was a fan of the company. Per the Times in 2022: "When word got out that Blank Street is not an independent chain ... but an enterprise with global ambitions backed by private equity financing, many became curious — and sometimes suspicious."
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