![]() We have been selling comics online and shipping for over 20 years, and are ALWAYS happy to work with our customers if there is ever an issue with the postage or handling. *** WE ALWAYS COMBINE SHIPPING, KEEP SHOPPING OUR STORE! *** ![]() We cannot guarantee any CGC grades, if you need a guaranteed NM+ 9.6/9.8 candidate, we understand if you’d prefer to look elsewhere.Īny individual item purchased for $50 or more comes fully insured at no additional cost.Īny order totaling $100 or more comes fully insured at no additional cost.Īny individual comic purchased for $100 or more comes shipped with bubble wrap and extra packing material.Īll comics come shipped bagged and boarded, in a sturdy, corrugated cardboard box, and clearly labeled, “DO NOT BEND.” If you have questions regarding specific condition of an item, please ask before purchasing. “The pandemic just really accelerated some trends that were already causing New York’s retail sector to shrink, particularly e-commerce,” Bowles said.All variants are new and unread unless otherwise stated. Yeah, we got Starbucks, CVS, Marshalls, etc, but we also have the shops that are individually owned, more so than most areas in New York. Among the sectors most impacted are clothing, accessories, shoes, sporting goods and department stores, Bowles of the Center for an Urban Future said. 35 reviews of 125th Street in Harlem 'I very much disagree with the opionion underneath. People got used to ordering online, and it hasn’t slowed down much since. “And that’s what I’m trying to dig into - what type of retail and again, if people will come in the retail stores if they have an experience because otherwise, you can shop online.” COVID and online shoppingĬOVID gave the retail sector in New York an extra push, but storefront retail shops actually started to gradually decline around 2014, he said. But not all retail is not dying,” Askins said. She said that despite the vacant storefronts that dot the corridor, things are looking up: Within the last two weeks, a couple new stores opened up, and she’s seeing more interest in real estate in the area. “There’s so many things that make this very difficult for a business.” “You have the crime, you have the homelessness, you got the state putting almost every drug supportive thing in Harlem,” she said. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)īarbara Askins, the president and CEO of the 125th Street Business Improvement District, said there are multiple factors that have changed the feel of the streets and had an impact on retail. Increasingly, retailers are locking up more products or increasing the number of security guards at their stores to curtail theft. Leo Pichardo, left, a store associate at Gristedes supermarket, retrieves a container of Tide laundry soap from a locked cabinet, Tuesday Jan. In response, stores have locked more merchandise behind glass displays. Reports of shoplifting and retail theft have shot up since the pandemic. Developers responsible for the new property include The Prusik Group, BRP Companies, L+M Development Partners, and Taconic Partners. Mavruk pointed to public safety: “I used to open up 10 o’clock on Tuesday,” he said. The store will occupy 28,000 square feet of ground-floor space of the forthcoming Urban League Empowerment Center at 121 West 125th Street. ![]() “All the local businesses have seemed like they’re just slowly becoming obsolete,” Lina said, adding that she was concerned about displacement and gentrification resulting from the high rent prices. You tell me is this place worth $20,000 a month? when there is nobody on the streets? How am I going to pay?” “The landlords are notorious in what they ask them to sit down and pretend you want to bring in a business to heart and call the landlords and try to bargain,” Mavruk said. Mahmut “Mohammed” Mavruk, owner of H & M Art Gallery and Framing, and his 22-year-old daughter Lina said that the high rents are impossible to pay when, on top of a rocky post-pandemic economy, public safety has deteriorated across the city and shoppers are more selective about when they will go out. How they gonna get back rent? They can’t make rent now!” Shopping and safety ![]() People have to pay rent on their house, they can’t pay rent on their store,” hairdresser Betty Washington, 65, said.
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