Hardware stores seem to be among the most tenacious of Manhattan's older business concerns. Warshaw Hardware on Third Avenue and 20th Street has been hanging on since 1928, the year before the Crash.
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Idalmi Hernandez Horton
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No one was more surprised than I when I went to visit my old neighborhood last year and discovered that Warshaw Hardware was still there. It brought back a flood of memories. I used to live at 212 E 20th St. from 1952 thru 1966 until the building we lived in was demolished to make room for the expansion of The Cabrini Medical Center. From paint to having keys made Warshaw was where my parents went. It is so nice to know that some things don't change and that, in some sense, we can go home.
The original, running Jeremiad on the vestiges of Old New York as they are steamrolled under or threatened by the currently ruthless real estate market and the City Fathers' disregard for Gotham's historical and cultural fabric. Est. January 2006. Contact Me
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One of the old book jackets lining the walls of Chumley's. Eternal Shame on Bloomberg, the City Fathers, and the powers that be that this cultural landmark has STILL not been saved and reopened.
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No one was more surprised than I when I went to visit my old neighborhood last year and discovered that Warshaw Hardware was still there. It brought back a flood of memories. I used to live at 212 E 20th St. from 1952 thru 1966 until the building we lived in was demolished to make room for the expansion of The Cabrini Medical Center. From paint to having keys made Warshaw was where my parents went. It is so nice to know that some things don't change and that, in some sense, we can go home.
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