SIEGEL-COOPER AD, DUMBO

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The Arbuckle Brothers were the first national retailers of coffee and produced America’s first national coffee brand, Ariosa, which remains available, complete with a traditional piece of peppermint candy in the bag. The Arbuckles were also sugar importers, and early on, they kept their coffee from getting stale by glazing it in sugar. One of [...]

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THE LAST HUMPBACK, Eastchester

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The last “humpback” of the thousands that served Manhattan and the Bronx barely made it into the 21st Century at a Bronx intersection you’ve never heard of (and one I’d never heard of until tipped off about it) at Allen Place and DeLavall Avenue in Eastchester. The sign survived until sometime in 2000 when the [...]

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UNITED SHERPA ASSOCIATION, Elmhurst

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Turn a corner in Queens, and you never know what ethic group you’ll run into, especially in the Elmhurst-Jackson Heights-Flushing axis, home to dozens of nationalities, especially from South America and Asia. I had never known that Elmhurst was a gathering place for expatriate Sherpa, whose homeland is in the shadow of the Himalaya Mountains [...]

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Job Opportunities

The University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry
Department of Periodontics.
Full-time Clinical or Tenure-Track Faculty Member

The University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry is searching for a full-time clinical or tenure-track faculty member in Department of Periodontics.    Position available August 1, 2016; screening begins immediately.  Must have:  DDS/DMD or equivalent; completion of ADA-accredited advanced education program in Periodontics by time of appointment; experience in all aspects of periodontology; implantology experience; and eligibility for sedation permit.   Desirable:  record of effective teaching; Board Certification/Eligibility in Periodontics; achievement in basic or clinical research relevant to periodontology/implantology; and experience in implant provisionalization.   Academic rank/track/salary commensurate w/qualifications and experience. 

Learn more and/or apply at Jobs@UIowa http://ift.tt/1ZMz08r, reference Req #68673.  The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, associational preference, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Dentistry
Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry
Director of Advanced Special Education in Orthodontics Program

The University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Dentistry is seeking applicants for a full-time Director of Advanced Special Education in Orthodontics program.  Requirements for this position include a DDS/DMD degree or equivalent degree(s), have completed a CODA accredited advanced education program in Orthodontics (residency), be board certified in Orthodontics by the American Board of Orthodontics and be eligible for licensure in the state of Maryland.  Additional credentials such as experience in CODA accreditation process and an MS and/or PhD degree, a tract record in publications and teaching experience in a related discipline is strongly desired.  Salary and academic rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

This position will be available until filled.  However, for best consideration qualified applicants should send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae and names and address of three references by June 1, 2016to Dr. Patricia Tordik, Chair, Search Committee, School of Dentistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 650 West Baltimore Street, Room 4217, Baltimore, MD 21201 or email to PTordik@umaryland.edu.  The University of Maryland, Baltimore is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.  Minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

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MATHEWS MODEL FLATS, Maspeth

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The streets of Long Island City, Ridgewood and to a lesser degree, Woodside, are lined with blond bricked Matthews Model Flats, each unit produced for $8000 in 1915 by Gustave X. Mathews, who is virtually unknown today but responsible for much classic residential architecture in Queens. The distinctive yellow bricks were produced in the kilns [...]

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LAST LAMP MOHICAN on Roosevelt Avenue

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In the 1970s, the Department of Transportation installed hundreds of Cooper UTR Traditionaire lamps (or similar models) beneath elevated trains, especially on Roosevelt and Liberty Avenues in Queens as well as Broadway in the Bronx. In the 1990s they were moved out in favor of shorter poles painted brown with large, globular “new Gumballs.” This [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #102: Southern Prospect Park

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The 18th season of ForgottenTours kicks off Sunday, April 30. We’ll be touring the highlights of southern Prospect Park including around the Lake, Music Grove and Park Circle. Who was Edvard Grieg? Thomas Moore? What’s the Oriental Pavilion all about? We will see. Also take a look at the Lake and the structures surrounding it [...]

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BROAD CHANNEL, 2016

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I’ll admit it. Broad Channel, other than damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, or a couple of businesses closing here and there, is the pretty much the same Broad Channel I saw during my first visit for Forgotten New York in 1999, and again in 2007. It’s Queens’ island kingdom, much as City Island [...]

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WHO IS THAT GUY? at Hoboken Terminal

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There he stands in magnificent copper verdigris at Sinatra Drive and Newark Street near the mighty Hudson near the Erie Lackawanna Terminal, where trains to all points in northern New Jersey, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and PATH trains and ferries to New York issue forth. But who is that guy? Samuel Sloan (1817-1907) was the President [...]

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SUNNY’S WONDERFUL SALOON, Red Hook

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On a ForgottenTour in May 2003, Forgotten Fan Mike Olshan introduced us to Sunny Balzano (1934-2016), whose family’s bar on Conover between Beard and Reed Streets has been a Red Hook waterfront institution for three generations, and Sunny treated us all to a brew as we piled in to a bar that faced several pieces of [...]

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CARROLL STREET BRIDGE, Crown Heights

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I know… you were probably expecting me to cover the famed Carroll Street Bridge over Gowanus Canal, built in 1889. I’ve featured that bridge (one of 4 remaining retractile bridges in the country and perhaps the world) a couple of times in FNY, and last fall [2015] I shot  a new sequence of photos I [...]

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CHURCH OF ADVENT HOPE, Yorkville

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I was hustling west on East 87th Street a couple of years ago on a day that couldn’t figure out whether to sun or rain when I spotted this neat little structure tucked away between high rise apartment buildings at #111, just east of Park. It is a remnant of German Seventh-Day Adventism in German [...]

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HUDSON STREET and HUDSON PLACE

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Two streets with the same name come together in southern Hoboken, Hudson Place and Hudson Street. The Place is the first street most visitors see when the emerge from the PATH train, an east-west street still punctuated by, in their turns, trolley tracks left over from a few generations previous, and by a stretch of [...]

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KOSTER AND BIAL’S sign, Midtown

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In one of the great NYC injustices, there is no immediate transfer from the Long Island Rail Road in Penn Station to the subway lines that run under 6th Avenue including the PATH train, which I have had to take for a few weeks in the spring of 2016, necessitating a forced march down 34th [...]

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MEET THE MINETTAS, Greenwich Village

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New York City streets that run in old waterway courses are relatively few and far between. The most famous is Canal Street, which was built in the early 1800s on top of a canal that was built to drain out the old Collect Pond in the Foley Square area; there are others, such as Brook [...]

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MEEKER AVENUE, Williamsburg

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It’s hard to imagine Meeker Avenue without the viaduct of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway running down its center, but the diagonal byway, which separates the street patterns of Greenpoint and East Williamsburg, existed nearly a century before the BQE was built here in 1950. Named for attorney Samuel Meeker, who drafted the charter for the independent [...]

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COURT STREET

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Court Street, which runs from Newark north to 7th Street between Hudson and Washington, is a relic of Hoboken’s past as it was once the laneway serving stables along Hoboken’s main business street (Washington) and Hudson, which in the past was the foremost residential street in the town; even today, several of Hoboken’s larger mansion-like [...]

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APARTMENT TO LET, Williamsburg

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It’s interesting that the phrase “TO LET”, as in “for rent”, seems to have passed out of English completely. “Let,” in this sense, and “lease” have the same roots in French and before that, Latin and the Indo-European root languages that preceded it. This one is on Havemeyer Street between Broadway and South 5th, and [...]

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WALDORF CAFETERIA, Downtown Brooklyn

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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Remember E.J. Korvettes, Woolworths, A&S, Coward Shoes, Gage & Tollner, Mays and Martins?  If you’re a Brooklynite of a certain age, you will.  The aforementioned businesses once all thrived in their respective locations throughout Downtown Brooklyn. All of them, and many more, remain only in our memories.  The revelation of [...]

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CLAM BROTH HOUSE SITE

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Welcome to the first post in FNY’s new category, Hoboken. Yes, it’s in New Jersey, but I have come to consider the purview of Forgotten New York to be Forgotten Greater New York, encompassing the immediate surrounding areas such as Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Nassau County, and areas of New Jersey reachable from the PATH train [...]

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WEST STREET, Greenpoint, Part 2

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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 I walked West Street in Greenpointin September 2015, and it may have been a propitious time to do so because the west end of Greenpoint is, by many accounts, about to see a lot of changes as money move$ in and the waterfront, previously given over to unloading and importing goods [...]

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FREEDOM’S GATE, Bedford-Stuyvesant

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Looking somewhat like a horseshoe or, perhaps, Star Trek’s Guardian of Forever is Freedom’s Gate, a sculpture by Philadelphia- based Charles Searles (1937-2004) at Fulton Street and Ralph Avenue at MacDonough Street, though you will not be transported to 1930 if you walk under the arch. It’s just one of the many notable objects scattered [...]

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THE HOWARD, Bedford-Stuyvesant

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Howard Avenue runs in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville. The avenue was named for tavern keeper William Howard (1725-1777) who ran the Rising Sun Tavern at the Jamaica and Cripplebush roads, now known as Atlantic Avenue and Bedford Avenue; the inn was also called the Halfway House: halfway between Brooklyn and Jamaica. The tavern was surprisingly long-lived [...]

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CLEARVIEW LAMP, Bayside

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In the 1950s what was then called the Department of Traffic developed special posts used on pedestrian walkways over parkways and expressways. Several clutches of them survive in town: I can name the 33rd Avenue and 39th Avenue pedestrian walkways over the Clearview Expressway in Bayside, as well as a couple over the Long Island [...]

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382 VAN BRUNT STREET, Red Hook

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Red Hook was supposed to erupt in hipsters, and then follow with overdevelopment, in the template of other Brooklyn waterside areas like Williamsburg, Greenpoint and now (apparently) Sunset Park. But so far the rocket hasn’t gotten off the launching pad in Red Hook. It could have something to do with the encroaching Gowanus Expressway or [...]

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ANTHONY LIQUORS, Little Italy

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I did a presentation on Monday, March 7, 2016 in Astoria about Travis, Staten Island, a place formerly known as Linoleumville, where between 1873 and 1931 there was a large factory the produced the titular product. Linoleum is a floor covering produced mainly with pulverized or ground cork and oxidized linseed oil. The process was [...]

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Job Opportunities

University of Maryland School of Dentistry-Full-Time Director of the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program

The University of Maryland School of Dentistry is seeking applications for a full-time Director  of the  Advanced Education in General Dentistry program.  Qualified applicants must possess a DDS/DMD from an ADA accredited dental program or equivalent, and must be eligible for an unrestricted license, limited or teaching license to practice dentistry in the State of Maryland.  The candidate must have completed an accredited one or two-year program in Advanced Education in General Dentistry and /or General Practice Residency. The candidate should have experience in dental school or institutional administration.  The candidate should have a high level of proficiency in clinical skills in all areas of general dentistry, including implant installation and restoration, oral surgery, complex restorative treatment plans, and hospital dentistry, focusing on patients with special needs and complex medical histories.  It is recommended that the candidate have a master’s degree, experience doing research and publications in peer-reviewed journals.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.  Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Interested parties should submit their current curriculum vitae, and names and addresses of three professional references to:  Dr. Douglas Barnes, Chair, Department of General Dentistry and Director, Advanced Education in General Dentistry, University of Maryland Dental School, Room 2203, 650 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD  21201 or via email at Dbarnes@umaryland.edu.  The search will remain open until a candidate is selected.

University of Iowa College of Dentistry-Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

The University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry is searching for FT tenure-track faculty member in Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.  Outstanding opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary research program. Department offers excellent clinical/research opportunities in oral and maxillofacial repair, bone regeneration, TMJ/pain management, tissue engineering, materials/biomaterials integration/bioprinting research. The Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery resident program is internationally recognized w/strong hospital-based components, state-of-the-art facilities in School of Dentistry/University Hospitals, and is affiliated w/the Carver College of Medicine.  The Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Department has historically played, and continues to play, strong leadership roles by providing research/academic direction to their discipline. Current departmental research themes include clinical/translational/basic science research in craniofacial developmental, skeletal biology, genetics, tissue engineering, and treatment outcomes. In addition, numerous opportunities available for collaboration w/i School of Dentistry, Iowa Institute of Dental/Craniofacial Research, Craniofacial Anomalies Research Center, and University of Iowa community.  Position available July 1, 2016; screening begins immediately.  Must have: DDS/DMD, or PhD, or equivalent doctoral degree.  Desirable:  national reputation as scholar w/outstanding/innovative research accomplishments; knowledge of key aspects of modern academic dentistry; understanding of contributions of diversity to excellence in academic endeavors; and federally funded research program w/goals to interact w/clinical researchers w/i department.  Academic rank/salary commensurate with qualifications/experience.   Learn more and/or apply at Jobs@UIowa at http://ift.tt/1ZMz08r, reference Req #68350.  The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, associational preference, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran.

University of Iowa College of Dentistry-Department of Family Dentistry

The University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry is searching for a full-time clinical or tenure-track faculty member in Department of Family Dentistry.    Position available May 1, 2016; screening begins immediately.  Must have:  DDS/DMD or equivalent; M.S. in Oral Science from ADA-accredited dental school; five years full-time private general practice experience; two years teaching experience in pre-doctoral comprehensive care clinic program, supervising all phases of general dentistry e.g. fixed and removable partial and/or complete denture prosthodontics, periodontics, endodontics, oral pathology, etc.; evidence of collaborative academic achievements; and research accomplishments.  Academic rank/track/salary commensurate w/qualifications and experience.  Learn more and/or apply at Jobs@UIowa http://ift.tt/1ZMz08r, reference Req #68503.  The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, associational preference, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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Job Opportunities

 

Department of General Dentistry

Director, Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program

 

The University of Maryland School of Dentistry is seeking applications for a full-time Director  of the  Advanced Education in General Dentistry program.  Qualified applicants must possess a DDS/DMD from an ADA accredited dental program or equivalent, and must be eligible for an unrestricted license, limited or teaching license to practice dentistry in the State of Maryland.  The candidate must have completed an accredited one or two-year program in Advanced Education in General Dentistry and /or General Practice Residency. The candidate should have experience in dental school or institutional administration.  The candidate should have a high level of proficiency in clinical skills in all areas of general dentistry, including implant installation and restoration, oral surgery, complex restorative treatment plans, and hospital dentistry, focusing on patients with special needs and complex medical histories.  It is recommended that the candidate have a master’s degree, experience doing research and publications in peer-reviewed journals.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.  Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.Interested parties should submit their current curriculum vitae, and names and addresses of three professional references to:  Dr. Douglas Barnes, Chair, Department of General Dentistry and Director, Advanced Education in General Dentistry, University of Maryland Dental School, Room 2203, 650 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD  21201 or via email at Dbarnes@umaryland.edu.  The search will remain open until a candidate is selected.

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WEST STREET, Greenpoint, Part 1

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In the summer of 2013 I walked Greenpoint’s West Street from end to end, and never got around to working on a page about what I had found. Then, a hard drive crashed, and I discovered to my dismay that the Apple “Time Machine” (a file backup device Apple has on its machines) wasn’t the [...]

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PRUDENTIAL SAVINGS BANK, Bedford-Stuyvesant

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The former Prudential Savings Bank on Stuyvesant and Vernon Avenues, just south of Broadway, the border of Bushwick, is a worthy sentinel at the uneasy line separating the two deep-Brooklyn neighborhoods. It’s a Classically-themed building with an entrance pediment, Corinthian columns and a dome originally lined on its interior by Guastavino tiling, constructed in 1908 [...]

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SWINGLINE STAPLERS, Long Island City

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Now home to the Prop N Spoon Company, which provides props for retail shows and conventions, and the City View Racquet Club, this building which fills an entire block and contains over a thousand windows is the former home of Swingline Staples, founded by Jack Linsky in 1925 as the Parrot Speed Fastener Company, changing [...]

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A COUPLE OF KEAP-ERS, Williamsburg

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Many of the streets in Williamsburg and northern Bedford-Stuyvesant are named for signers of the Declaration of Independence. Not every signer is represented, but most are. Ben Franklin, George Clymer, George Taylor, James Wilson, John Morton, and George Ross of Pennsylvania; Caesar Rodney of Delaware; William Hooper, George Hewes and John Penn of North Carolina; [...]

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MANNY’S LIQUORS AND WINES, Williamsburg

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I was idling around Williamsburg in January 2014 and found this grand old plastic-lettered liquor store sign at Rodney (named for Caesar Rodney, the president of Delaware — before the Constitution was adopted, states had presidents) and South 4th Streets. Looks like I arrived just in time as this specter of Williamsburg’s pre-trust fund wild [...]

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S. KLEIN STORES

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Samuel Klein founded the discount chain S. Klein in 1906, with the flagship store at Union Square East and East 14th Street, and the business eventually grew as large as 19 stores in the metropolitan area before the inevitable decline. The Union Square flagship closed in 1975 (the space is currently filled by the 1987 [...]

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