Creepy may be a better word than scary. There's something very disturbing about this storefront at Ludlow and Grand with its perpetual fall display and leg mannequins. Is that the name? Leg mannequins?
The scariest part? The store was open when I walked by last Tuesday.
Unrelated, except that I was only a couple of blocks away when it happened: A hipster couple stopped and asked, "Do you where the Lower East Side is?" They looked disappointed when I said they were in the Lower East Side.
"No, the Lower East Side near the Williamsburg Bridge with all the cool bars and restaurants." they pleaded. It was tough not to point them toward Chinatown, but I sent them off to Clinton St. instead.
Being chased by hollow legs are what my nightmares are made of. No, not really. But, great little story about the hipster couple. You're a man after my own heart for the fact that you considered sending them to Chinatown. Even though you didn't actually go through with it. But still.
Posted by: Marie | 10 November 2004 at 04:45 PM
Yikes - I noticed that shop back in May and took a some pictures, too, during which I convinced myself that the store HAD to be closed.
In case you are interested, here are my pictures of the lovely Lismore Hosiery Shop:
http://www.xanga.com/DavisMcDavis/257098413/item.html
I'm glad to see I'm not the only person sucked in by that place. I have a thing for bad window displays - in the extreme off chance that you are interested, I also have some pictures of a bad window display from a medical supply store West Hollywood: http://www.xanga.com/DavisMcDavis/215699361/item.html
Posted by: DavisMcDavis | 16 November 2005 at 04:49 PM
The store building is now sold. The storekeeper once told me that 7 years ago, a bird found its way into the window display, knocked over everything and ripped some of the hosiery. He never got around to properly cleaning the display up. Weird.
Posted by: d f mander | 25 December 2005 at 12:26 AM
Ugh those hipsters sound so annoying. Thank god they weren't looking for my part of the LES. I would have send them on a never-ending trip down East Broadway.
Posted by: tamasha | 07 August 2006 at 12:19 AM
Actually I just remembered a time that I was standing on the corner of 5th Avenue and 8th Street and a woman asked me where Greenwich Village was. Ha ha.
Posted by: tamasha | 07 August 2006 at 07:36 PM