The REI, a competitor to the out door firm Patagonia, is closing a very large store in Soho. REI will no longer be represented in NYC. The store is located in the Puck, a building dating to the mid-to-late 1800s. This does not qualify as end of an era stuff, but it did offer a jog to my memory. The jog, not unexpectedly, ran a path straight to how Burt and I met.
Walk with Me, Too 