RFI: NYC - 27 W 8th Ave

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Long story .. I have an old map that was drawn in 1926 .. of, fuckit - who cares ..

This is what I want to know .. what's currently at 27 West 8th Street in NYC? (Bonus points if you take a picture..)

(There may be treasure involved - you can get started by breaking up the sidewalk.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

(I don't think there's such thing as West 8th Ave.)

As for 8th street, my guess is lots of NYU kids buying pot.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha, ha, I've only just worked out what "RFI" means!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link

My guess is a shoe store of some kind a stone's throw from Pat Field.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Right - Street, not Ave...

Seriously though - I need to know what's occupying the building there now & if the building is new or original to that location.

I assumed the faux-beatnick thing.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Okay, I looked (just google the address) and it's a shoe store called Petit Pieton.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks..

(what a boring result.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a few blocks from me right now. The record The Gray Wizard Am I by Gandalf The Gray was recorded on W. 8th Street right off of 5th avenue, but I don't recall the specific number of the building.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 4 November 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

isnt that electric ladyland studios?

― duke afternoon, Thursday, 4 November 2004 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link

are you talking to me? as far as I know that gandalf album was recorded on a four track in the dude's bedroom. i believe that's what the liner notes tell me, anyway.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 4 November 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

W. 8th between 5th and 6th is all shoe stores. shoe stores shoe stores shoe stores. but if you keep going, you get to gray's papaya!

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 4 November 2004 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm having lunch at gray's today. it is THURSDAY RITUAL.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 4 November 2004 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Isn't there some psychedeilc poster store around there?

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 4 November 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

gandalf the gray's papaya

― duke pomegranate, Thursday, 4 November 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

The Patricia Field store on 8th St closed about two years ago.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 5 November 2004 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link

is Psychedelic Solution still open?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 5 November 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

saruman the white castle

erf i'll get me coat

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 5 November 2004 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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