More small businesses continue to close...
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City Copies on Seventh Street between Second Avenue and First Avenue closed about one week ago. An EV Grieve reader noted the friendly owner.
"I'd go in and he'd call me 'friend.' He knew what I needed." According to the reader, the owner could no longer pay the rent and the high taxes.
And this is an awfully big space...
likely destined to become some kind of specialty food joint to fit alongside the other eateries down on Seventh Street...
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The barbershop at 150 E. Second St. near Avenue A is gone... (This shares the address with
Nicky's, which will move...)
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And Village Fabrics on First Avenue and 11th Street is on the way out... there's a "for rent" sign above the store now...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Of the 147 storefronts on Avenue A, 70 of them are bars, restaurants or vacant