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
Wow, I am so happy this thread is still going. I think I’m going to buy a bottle of bourbon, find that 350K annually couple, and have a drunken threesome. They sound fun!
Some people think it’s absolutely romantic to commit to someone for the rest of their lives. I believe most people who get married do it because they think it’s a sweet and genuine display of affection and love–total commitment. Of course, it doesn’t work out 1/2 the time. But I think it’s pretty obvious that that’s what motivates *most* marriages. Kids are an afterthought.
5:42 you really are an idiot and we GET it. You want to go out and get laid, you feel trapped in your marriage and NEVER would have considered marrying your poor wife if you didn’t need her to raise your offspring. we GET IT> For god’s sake.
AND to the person who just felt the need to brag about his income, savings and real estate purchasing power – your post just justified everyone’s suspicion that people who buy $1000 dollar strollers are indeed status-conscious idiots.
you are an idiot, 5:42.
every person on this thread disagrees with you, but you keep spouting the same nonsense over and over.
go live your sexless, unfullfilled life strapped to your overbearing wife and leave us alone.
“We don’t NEED to marry. That’s what makes marriage special. Because it’s something people WANT to do”
Ok so substitute want for need if that makes you feel better:
why would 2 (presumably) equal partners who are allegedly committed to each other WANT to LEGALLY/FINANCIALLY bond themselves to each other if they have no intention of having a family?
BTW – I have asked this as a married and unmarried person.
“I’d just rather put the money in a college savings account. Imagine that.”
My wife and I combined make 350K a year, we paid cash for our brownstone in 2003 and it’s now worth double (on paper, of course), we have 200K in college savings for our 2 year old daughter and a we have a little over 2 million in our own portfolio and donate a sizeable portion of our income each year to charity. We are both 33.
Why can’t we spend 1000 bucks on a stroller if we want to? Who are you to tell us what is too much to spend?
That’s how much we spend on eating out in a month so I think it’s a worthwhile investment on a stroller.
5:17 – but as you type on your (price premium) Apple computer, in a coffee shop that charges $5 a cup – did you ever stop and consider that maybe SOME of the people who buy a $700 stroller think it is actually functionally better and since they use it everyday for hours at a time over a course of years – the pennies extra it costs (amortized) isnt a waste or a luxury at all???
I dont have such a stroller but then again I never used one. However,until EVERYTHING I buy is the least expensive most basic model available – I am going to refrain from criticizing and generalizing people who I don’t even know simply because they didnt do the same.
5:17…
it’s good you are so open minded.
a nice trait, indeed.
We don’t NEED to marry. That’s what makes marriage special. Because it’s something people WANT to do. It’s funny how anti-marriage people always use the fact marriage is not necessary to disparage the institution of marriage. When I think that’s the very thing that makes marriage so romantic, that it’s not necessary.
I am an atheist and don’t hold a moral view people have to be married. But I have always believed the non-married couples have a committment or confidence issue they’re not acknowledging. Being married is absolutely different from just being together. I’ve never met a married person who said otherwise. The difference between the opinions of those who have never been married and those who are married, is the unmarried have only been in unmarried relationships, and the married people have been both unmarried and married relationships. So who is the more informed? Never-married people telling married people it’s all the same is absurd. How the heck do they know?