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Another Atlantic Ave Design Store Biting the Dust

Categories: Brooklyn Heights, Streetlevel

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The Brooklyn Heights decor and gift store is closing up shop at the end of this month. The tiny store has been around since 2006, and owners say they won't be relocating. Looks like that corner of Henry and Atlantic will feel pretty barren soon, what with the shuttering of Nova Zembla. GMAP
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By E_Nonko at March 4, 2010 11:01 AM | Comments (22)

22 Comments

By dirty_hipster on March 4, 2010 11:13 AM

AT least Henry Public is doin well!

By Petebklyn on March 4, 2010 11:20 AM

why will it feel 'pretty' soon? is it ugly now with the stores open?

By DeLepp on March 4, 2010 11:25 AM

bh folks not shopping? So far brooklyn table, rug store, furniture store and now this one.

By duckumu on March 4, 2010 11:37 AM

honestly though, that place kinda had it coming. they sold like 10 things and it was all overpriced. i got the feeling the whole store was some rich banker's wife's pet project to keep her busy during the day.

i think they needed more inventory to be successful. haystack just a few blocks away isn't much bigger but sells so much more.

By denton on March 4, 2010 11:41 AM

I liked Atlantic back in the day when it had twenty huge stores stuffed with nothing but solid oak antiques.

By oldtimer on March 4, 2010 11:53 AM

There a quite a few closed shops on Court, Smith and Atlantic Avenue. It's hard to pay the high rents particularly selling knick knacks.

By BoringHillDotCom on March 4, 2010 11:58 AM

Yet people are somehow paying high rents selling Essential Oils every other store front.

By hannible on March 4, 2010 12:15 PM

Hi rents! Selling something no one want. Next. Our economey is doing just great. Productivity is going up but who knows what we are producing. Oh yeah paper meney.

By jessibaby on March 4, 2010 12:23 PM

Sad. I bought some nice gifts in there -- the ladies had a good eye.

By Pigeon on March 4, 2010 12:30 PM

"Looks like that corner of Henry and Atlantic will feel pretty soon, what with the shuttering of Nova Zembla."

I assume this is a typo.
Probably should read "will feel preety barren soon."

By writeonadelphi on March 4, 2010 1:01 PM

Very sorry to see them go. They had high end items (yes, pricey, but excellent quality and exactly in line with what you would pay online or in Manhattan) with excellent Brooklyn customer service. Definitely a loss.

By woodys on March 4, 2010 1:09 PM

this place was nice...well chosen items, great for gifts. I guess a tough place for a store in terms of foot traffic, off Atlantic as it was. I'm guessing tazza will hang in there, seems like they do a pretty good business.

By Yllebdael on March 4, 2010 1:14 PM

She married rich. Got bored. Opened a store. Got bored. Closed store.

By E_Nonko on March 4, 2010 1:48 PM

Whoops! You were right, Pigeon. Somehow a word got lost in the edit... It will be feeling pretty lonely/barren soon. And anywhere farther down Atlantic towards the water is just as depressing...

By pennytile on March 4, 2010 2:56 PM

Too bad! This was such a nice store.

By highheights on March 4, 2010 3:46 PM

This was a fantastic store! The two owners (neither, I believe, was a rich banker's wife...) had a great eye for timeless, modern stuff, and there was actually quite a range of prices. Where will I get all my hostess and office gifts now? I guess we'll just have to hope that not another nail salon or third rate thrift store to open up (like i feel is happening all over Park Slope...).
Brooklyn Heights has a sad dearth of quality, locally owned businesses - I will be sad to see this store go.

By Brownstonerlogin on March 4, 2010 3:52 PM

My husband and I always referred to this place as the-shop-we-always-look-in-the-window-of-but-never-actually-go-into... I guess maybe others did too...

By Bob Marvin on March 4, 2010 6:32 PM

I agree with Denton (@11:41 AM)

I love turn of the last century oak. Contrarian that I am, one of the things I liked about buying that kind of furniture was having people in my parents generation wonder why I liked that old junk. Kind of like my reaction to 30 somethings buying mid-century modern now (although I at least appreciate the irony):-)

By CGar on March 4, 2010 7:30 PM

1. Uh? Hel-lo?! I posted this in the OT DAYS ago, Monday, I think, when we were trying to help DH furnish his apartment.

By CGar on March 4, 2010 7:31 PM

B. "i got the feeling the whole store was some rich banker's wife's pet project to keep her busy during the day."

LOL. May not be true, but I always had the same thought.

By CGar on March 4, 2010 7:37 PM

Third, "anywhere farther down Atlantic towards the water is just as depressing... "

Actually, E_Nonko, one of 11217's favorite shops, Holler & Squall, a very nice, eclectic antiques shop with nice owners, is on the block between Hicks and the BQE. I posted this in the OT last Friday. That end of Atlantic will really do well once Pier 6 of the Park opens since it's only one of 2 entrances and there will be a lot of foot traffic.

By jgm on March 6, 2010 8:26 PM

We shopped here on occasion. This closing is a serious loss to the neighborhood, and I will miss the shop tremendously.

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