Was just at my local Home Depot and saw a great New York minute (they converted an old bldg. in Chelsea a year or so ago). Anyways, this old couple are struggling with a couple of sheets of hardiboard flagging down a yellow cab.
I of course took my sheetrock onto the subway.<g>
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the parking lot of the Home Depot in Brooklyn (on Hamilton Ave) has been the scene of some of my favorite NY moments.
I've seen a few there too. Used to like shopping after midnight, couldn't believe how crowded it would be at 2am, families with kids in tow. I hear they put up a Lowes nearby.
Home Cheapo is no longer 24hr/day. (Their rational is they couldn't stock out the shelves...)Yes, it is true about Lowes. On the site of the old US Post Office parking garage/truck depot on 9th Street and the canal.
You mean, "we got tired of having twice as much stolen as purchased between 10 pm and 4 am!"
Seems to be a trend with HD. The ones on the island used to be open till midnight, then 11pm, now 10pm. Signs of our boooming economy I guess.
The killer is this Home Depot was busy 24/7. And depending when you went there it was packed with different groups of peoples.Saturday night for example, wall to wall Orthodox Jews. Friday, Caribbean...The paint dept was a little UN lab.
LOL, exactly.I would sometimes go there after an evening in the East Village, so the sodium lights and forklift alarm experience was rather enhanced.
Is Sid's Hardware still downtown? Now there was an old fashioned hardware store!
Sid's Hardware (if you mean the one in Manhattan) closed years ago.
No, this one was in downtown Brooklyn, I think right on Fulton.
I remember that one! It was down the block from Polytech. Great, old hardware store smell. I think it survived the lame attempt to revitalize the neighborhood, but I have not been to Downtown Brooklyn in years....that's not a mistake, it's rustic
Yes, you are right, I was thinking of something else.
Sid's in Brooklyn (on Jay St. btw Myrtle & Willoughby) is still there.
Ok, one more...Pitcheck paints on Flatbush still there? I lived in Park Slope and Tarzian Hardware & Book Lumber was where I bought my materials. I knew Harry Tarzian quite well. Adami Hardware on Myrtle Ave? Was that one more? Do you think I miss the old neighborhood?...man o man.
I lived in Clinton Hill and shopped at all those places. Pretty sure there all still there, but haven't shopped them for awhile. Adami was my local, what a bunch of characters they were. There was a circular saw post awhile back and I mentioned that a hardware store in Brooklyn (Adami) had 20 year old (brand new in the box) Porter Cable (under the Rockwell brand) 8 1/4" saws. Wonder if they are still there.Remember Cousin Johns in the Slope - awesome almond croissants. There is a new movie out with Jeff Daniels that takes place in Park Slope.
Cousin Johns was after my time.
There was a smokey little bar there called City Lights on the corner of Caroll and 7th Ave that would have live jazz maybe three nights a week. These guys all lived in the neighborhood and were session-studio players by day. We would crowd in there and listen to some of the best jazz in NYC spill over into the streets, I mean these cats were pistol hot! Session players are the cream of the crop for musicians. All good things like that end too soon and the place is only a memory now, all traces of it gone. It's a Korean fruit market last I saw ( about 10 years ago). I guess it's appropriate because that's where I spent much of my salad days. Maybe the rutabagas and vidallia onions do the jumpin' jive late at night when no one is around.
Another great bar was a dive called The Iron Horse just across from Hertzog's deli ( Have the chicken...oy!). These were the days just before Park Slope became waaaaay to chic and expensive for po boys like me to live there. It was a mellow funky place in the 70's. No longer.
What about Belamelios on 7th Ave? Voted the best bagles in NYC by NY Mag back in the day. The nova lox and cream cheese on a poopy seed with the Sunday Times just after a morning run in the park. It was like....ya know....oxygen.
My brother lived there in the 70's, I didn't get there till the late 80's so I missed the mellower scene. I did some renovation work in the Slope and Windsor Terrace then.
Funny you mention the Jazz sessionists, a bunch of guys lived on my street in Clinton Hill (Washington Ave by Pratt) Kirk Lightsey, Lester Bowie and even Winton Marsalis.
My best friend lived on the corner of Washington and Willoby (sp). Bill Sykes with his wife Lucy. Went to his memorial about 2 years ago. What a great neighborhood Clinton Hill is.
I show up at HD or the midwest equivalent, Menards, to buy rigid foam insulation board that only comes in 4x8 sheets. I'm in my Honda CRV. So I get my 4 foot straight edge and knife and cut them into half sheets that will fit inside my car. I fill up my car and get to the yard checkout where the kid comes to inspect my holdings to ensure that I'm not stealing any of their prime warped lumber. I bought eight sheets, and he now counts sixteen pieces, thinking I'm stealing his stuff.
Sounds like somone could make a few bucks by painting a bunch of F-150's Yellow and starting a Home Depot/Lowes NYC taxi service. ;o)
Now that's an idea!
They've got pet taxi's already.
Tarzian and Pintchik are both still there. The new Lowes and HD haven't been able to kill them yet. Brooklyn is a treasure trove of little old hardware stores.
Rich.
Circa 1968, I conned my best friend into helping me carry a queen-size foam mattress from the foam shop on the Bowery to my apt. in the West 80's - 3 subways, 2 transfers, & of course rush hour.
We still laugh about that.
I built a platform bed in the ~8x10 bedroom - had to leave it there when I moved. 8>)
Hee hee. Did anyone pick em' up?
I was at a place where a guy needed a 12' 2x4, but he only had a little car.
"Oh, well let's just cut it in half. It'll fit then."
"But I thought you needed 12' lengths?"
"Well, I can always nail it back together, can't I?" (Not as a question, but a statement.)
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Reminds me of a time when I had 22' 2x12's on my Toyota PU..I had a ladder rack at the cab only type thing...was tooling along fine till I got to the phone lines in my customers driveway. Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
HOW ABOUT THAT REZ GUY? UH HUH? ...He ain't Silesien I bet....wimp
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Hey, Sphere.You are suppose to put the board HORIZONATLALY, not VERITCALLY.
Well, being as you spelled both dimensions incorrectly, I feel secure in choices of transport....LOL. Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
HOW ABOUT THAT REZ GUY? UH HUH? ...He ain't Silesien I bet....wimp
" Nie dajê siê olÅ“niæ statkami parowymi i kolej¹ ¿elazn¹. Wszystko to nie jest cywilizacj¹. - Francois Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848) "