StreetLevel: Baby Biz Out, Barber In on Fifth Ave.
The pace of retail turnover on Fifth Avenue shows no signs of slowing. However, at 143 Fifth off Douglass, the gentrification tide appears to be reversing: A good old-fashioned barber is going to replace the out-of-business perfume/body potion/candle shop. And right next door, the baby-toy and clothing store Romp is calling it quits after three…
The pace of retail turnover on Fifth Avenue shows no signs of slowing. However, at 143 Fifth off Douglass, the gentrification tide appears to be reversing: A good old-fashioned barber is going to replace the out-of-business perfume/body potion/candle shop. And right next door, the baby-toy and clothing store Romp is calling it quits after three years. (Romp fans will still be able to get their fix on the Web; the bricks-and-mortar location is shuttering because the store’s owner is moving away.) No word yet on what’s going to replace Romp. GMAP
I find it amazing that the Crazy Male Lady is still yammering on.
I hear a typewriter repair shop’s going into the ROMP space. But they only serve people with ugly children. No singles or non-parents allowed in.
THANK you, 10:49.
I’m the gay guy from yesterday and I’d also like to point out all the terrific lesbian and male couples who have managed to raise beautiful and well-adjusted children, WITHOUT BEING MARRIED!!!!
10:49 – I have no issue giving all my income to my family – thats a huge portion of what the Marriage contract is about – but I see no reason why anyone would CONTRACTUALLY do so if someone is foregoing children and the reason they are bonded to another person is solely out of love and companionship.
It is also interesting that your ‘support’ was contingent on my gender – Clearly it is you who is still living in 1955.
I find it amazing that the “brownstoner mob’, which would appear to support a liberal/progressive agenda is so old fashioned when it comes to the most conservative of all institutions = marriage. If most of you weren’t so annoyingly hypocritical it would almost be kinda sweet.
Ewww – the fact that the crazy lady is actually a husband makes me retract my support. Clearly he is obsessed with the fact that he has to share his income with his wife and children. I would be really depressed if I found my husband harping on those issues so aggressively. I kind of thought it sounded like a man, I’ve never heard a woman – even one who makes far more than her husband – express concern about sharing income and giving up legal rights in marriage. But thought when he didn’t contradict all the posts identifying him as a crazy mother that he must be female. All I can say is YUCK.
Once again, earth-shattering meteor, where are you!?!?!?!
I’m 9:47’s wife and how DARE you–9:58–speak to my husband that way? Just goes to show you that single people don’t want to hear the truth! They just want to go to their singles bars and go on dates and smoke cigarettes and drink. I tell ya!
Marriage has nothing to do with kids. Your kids do not need for you to be married and you certainly do not need to have kids to make your marriage worthwhile.
I’m not 9:38–but are you serious 9:47? Are you an actual thinking adult human being? You are your ilk are what make this world such a shitty place.