by caleb - Sep 7, 2010
Store Front
We love both our neighborhoods and it’s been great getting settled into our new West Village location over the past few months, but compared to the old world stores that used to pepper the landscape, even our worn-in NYU locations seems like it was opened yesterday. All the respect in the world for the time-tested NYC institutions chronicled in this simple ode to the New York store front – may they live on and prosper.
Just like a Tabac in any european country , especially in Paris
Right! The old, small, Tabac-style stores really define Paris, and it still feels alive in parts of New York and Brooklyn. The butcher/tailor/pharmacy/cobbler shops divide a giant, overwhelming city into manageable, even familiar, neighborhoods, each one a self-sufficient urban village.