A new tenant for the former JAM Paper & Envelope space on 3rd Avenue

After staying vacant for three years, a new tenant is in the works for 135 Third Ave. between 14th Street and 15th Street.

According to the @TradedNY account, a business called Third Avenue Discount signed a lease for the large space. No word on the moment what kind of discounted items that the shop will sell. Stay tuned. (H/T Upper West Sider!)

Longtime tenant JAM Paper & Envelope closed here in January 2018 after 25 years in business. The company closed its storefronts in a shift to e-commerce.

Meanwhile, next door at 133 Third Ave., the carcass of an in-progress 16-story residential building remains ... way back in December 2012, a construction mishap "sent wet concrete oozing through a wall and into an NYU dorm next door," as DNAinfo reported at the time. The owner of the building that NYU leases the dorm from subsequently sued to halt the project.

And here it sits...

Last call for JAM Paper & Envelope on 3rd Avenue

Saturday is the last day in business for JAM Paper & Envelope on Third Avenue between 14th Street and 15th Street. (One of the owners said that the sale was going well, and they decided to extend it for a few more days.)

"Store is closing" signs appeared in the windows in early January.

Per the JAM Paper website on Jan. 15:

After nearly a quarter of a century in the East Village of New York City, JAM Paper and Envelope’s last remaining brick and mortar location on Third Avenue between 14th and 15th Street, will be closing this month. Before you hit the panic button, business will continue as normal via its e-commerce website: www.jampaper.com

There are several jokey signs up in the windows...



...and this one...

So my wife of 40 years says... Honey (I know I'm in trouble when I'm honey...) no one shops retail anymore.

That's why we are online. Fine I say!

She then says... Now can we go to Florida.

EVG reader Harry Weiner shared these photos from Tuesday...





JAM represents the first letters of the owners' first names — Janet, Andrew and Michael Jacobs, the family members who run the company.

The website notes that JAM has had over 10 different Manhattan locations. Their New Jersey warehouse remains in operation.

Previously on EV Grieve:
JAM Paper & Envelope is closing on 3rd Avenue

JAM Paper & Envelope is closing on 3rd Avenue

[Photo via EVG reader Gwen]

A "store is closing" sign is now up in the window at JAM Paper & Envelope on Third Avenue between 14th Street and 15th Street.

The home-office stationery and supply shop will close at the end of the month, an employee confirmed. The online business will continue in operation. I reached out to the JAM main office to find out more about the closure.

For now, everything in the store is 50-percent off, per the sign.

Here's a little history via the JAM website:

The story of JAM Paper & Envelope begins in New York City in 1954, when Henry Berger opened Hudson Envelope as a paper and envelope wholesaler and printing service. In 1983, Henry's son-in-law, Michael Jacobs, would open Hudson Envelope's first retail store in New Jersey called JAM Paper & Envelope.

Hudson's first Manhattan location arrived in 1978 ... and in 1983 the first JAM store debuted.

JAM represents the first letters of the owners' first names — Janet, Andrew and Michael Jacobs, the family members who run the company.

The website notes that JAM has had over 10 different Manhattan locations. This JAM, their lone retail outlet in the city now, has been at 135 Third Ave. since 2004.

The standalone JAM addendum next door was demolished in 2008, as Jeremiah Moss noted.


[Photo from 2008 by Jeremiah Moss]

That lot is now the long-stalled 16-floor condoplex.