{"id":7891,"date":"2013-11-06T08:55:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/?p=7891"},"modified":"2013-11-06T08:56:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:56:06","slug":"vercesi-hardware-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/?p=7891","title":{"rendered":"Vercesi Hardware to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old-time neighborhood standby, Vercesi Hardware is closing at the end of November. The history of the store which was opened by Paul Vercesi as a sheet music store in 1912 can be seen at <a title=\"Jeremiah's Vanushing New York\" href=\"http:\/\/vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com\/2013\/10\/vercesi-hardware.html\">http:\/\/vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com\/2013\/10\/vercesi-hardware.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The store became known as 23rd Street Hardware after the owner retired several years ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23st_hw-note.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-7893\" alt=\"23st_hw-note\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23st_hw-note.jpg\" width=\"307\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23st_hw-note.jpg 307w, http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23st_hw-note-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a>The building was sold, will be demolished and turned into yet another luxury high-rise.<\/p>\n<p>We have discovered that the The Xavier Society for the Blind in the adjoining building will be relocating and that building will be knocked down as well.<\/p>\n<p>It is odd that every politico that has jurisdiction over EMP stopped us from going private in the name of &#8216;Affordable Housing&#8217; yet they let thousands of 5-6 story building that people can afford to live in be knocked down by wealthy developers to be replaced by expensive condos. Why is it that EMP&#8217;s 750 apartments are the only answer to affordable housing? How about standing up to rich developers?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23st_hw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7892\" alt=\"23st_hw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23st_hw-300x245.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23st_hw-300x245.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23st_hw-366x300.jpg 366w, http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23st_hw.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old-time neighborhood standby, Vercesi Hardware is closing at the end of November. The history of the store which was opened by Paul Vercesi as a sheet music store in 1912 can be seen at http:\/\/vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com\/2013\/10\/vercesi-hardware.html The store became known &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/?p=7891\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,6],"tags":[1731,1730,1732],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7894,"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions\/7894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}