There Goes the Neighborhood: Longstanding UWS Lefty Emporium to Close
8/3/07 at 3:47 PM

Photo: S. Jhoanna Robledo
Liberty House is fifth independent shop to close in a several-block stretch of Broadway in just the last six months: Embassy Florist, which has been in the neighborhood for nearly nine decades, shuttered about a month ago, as well as hipster clothing purveyor Sude, T-shirt place La Brea, and, early this year, Ivy's Books and its detective-thrillers-focused cousin, Murder Ink — which means the retail character of the area is changing. "It's a sprawling suburban mall without the convenience of parking," says Jill Putterman, a psychologist who lives nearby. Expect a bank, a drugstore, or a chain (paging Claire's) in the space soon, no doubt. —S. Jhoanna Robledo
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