Jam Newspaper & Envelope

As E.V. Grieve reported before this month, JAM Paper & Envelope is closing on Third Avenue close 14th Street. They started trouble concern inwards 1954 in addition to opened their start store inwards 1983. Today is the final day.


all photos past times Katrina del Mar

This week, simply about interesting signs went upwardly inwards the windows that powerfulness tell us something most the closure.

Reads one: "So my married adult woman of xl years says... Honey, no ane shops retail anymore. That's why nosotros are online. Fine, I say. She therefore says, Now nosotros tin order the axe larn to Florida."



The side past times side is a listing of "Facts I Remember," including "People maxim delight in addition to give cheers you," "Talking instead of texting," in addition to "Shopping inwards stores."

So mayhap nosotros chalk this ane upwardly to the changing demographic inwards the East Village, a novel population that prefers to store online, rather than engage alongside the local commercial culture. As many long-time residents bring noted, the hallways of our buildings fill upwardly up alongside packages every bit novel people movement in.