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Signage arrived late last week at 17 St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue for Me ❤️ Cue ... apparently they will be selling cosmetics, not unlike Shibuyala that just opened at 37 St. Mark's Place.
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[Me Cue photos by Steven]
This storefront was most recently (as you can see from the awning under the Me ❤️ Cue sign) the Mandala Tibetan Store.
Updated 3/28: Me ❤️ Cue is now open.
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And that Optimo Cigars shop/deli (with its 75-cent coffee) closed last month on First Avenue between Third Street and Fourth Street ...
[Last month]
Workers were putting up the signage for the new tenant yesterday — the Empire Smoke Shop, whose awning touts e-cigarettes, CBD and Kratom...
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And a flashback to an old friend next door — the Pudgie's-Nathan's-Arthur Treacher's action-packed combo that ruled the Avenue in 2012...
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[Photo in 2012 by Bobby Williams]