Category Archives: Closings

Lewis Gallery Closing

Posted on March 1, 2011 by The Changeling

Here’s the kind of news that we hate to receive in our inbox: Lewis Gallery, located at 411 Lewis Avenue, will officially close their doors at the end of the month. Owner Gwendolyn Lewis sent out an email in which she thanked her loyal customers for their patronage over the past 21 years and [...]

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Fig Tree Market Closes

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Changeling

Farewell Fig Tree Market, we hardly knew ye.
About a year after opening the Fig Tree Market on Myrtle and Walworth has closed. This nice little market was doing well until Chestnut Market opened up a block away. Chestnut Market arrived all shiny and new with a much larger selection than Fig Tree’s. [...]

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Tiny Cup Has New Owner

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Alexa11221

Lisa's farewell note
I went by Tiny Cup last week to order some holiday baked goods and found this note on the door:

To the Tiny Cup Community:
As some of you have heard there are some changes coming to Tiny Cup.
This has been a personally difficult year for me and the decision to move my life in [...]

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Afroart Designs Has Closed Quietly

Posted on July 23, 2010 by The Progressive Southside

The reflection of the storefront glass and the see-through security gate casts a bit of a deception, but take a closer look.  The signature brick wall stands bare and the space is dark.  While peeping in, a resident confirmed that after seven years, Afroart Designs (316 Stuyvesant Aveune, between Hancock and Halsey Streets) closed its [...]

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