Amazing dioramas of NYC storefronts

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They are fucking beautiful. And the Mars Bar looks like my kinda place.

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LookED like your kind of place. Past tense.

Because the planned new one where they built the condos is striving to be a juice bar. Really.

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There are certain things that I associate with unpleasant childhood experiences. Dodgeball is one of them. Dioramas are another. I hated having to make those damn things for school.

Well, fuck. Colour me unsurprised.

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Hey, @noahdjango and @chgoliz what storefront do you think this guy should make next?

If it were up to me I miss the old Gordon’s Novelties on Broadway and 22nd:
http://forgotten-ny.com/2008/12/gordons-novelties-broadway/

What a thing to see zigzag records, a tiny place in the deepest unhip depths of Brooklyn on the boingboing front page. One stop shop for used cds, rare bootlegs and black band tees… Long gone now. RIP

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uhhhhhh… the…
toilet
store?

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I don’t believe it. Need kitten for scale or something.

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Oh, fuck me. I knew it had been torn down for condos but relaunching it as a juice & quinoa bar is the most comically misguided branding imaginable.

(I spent more total time there throughout the 80s and 90s than any other establishment anywhere.)

Edit: Yonah Shimmel’s isn’t gone, is it?

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