Spring and Lafayette? That's practically the Wall Street area. Are you expanding your coverage now?
July 7, 2015 at 8:14 AM
JAZ said...
Midtown Deep South
July 7, 2015 at 9:23 AM
Anonymous said...
They come and go here as well. Spring Street Natural, the cultural-culinary cornerstone of this nabe, was just recently forced to move.
Nice to see you so plugged in, Tiny, but the juice bar craze helped to kill the LES nabe as well. Keep it to tats or skateboard shops and we'll all be happier.
July 7, 2015 at 9:25 AM
Ken from Ken's Kitchen said...
I remember those upstate punks. Two rival vegan/straight edge gangs terrorized a small town after one of their leaders was thrown out of a health food store.
July 7, 2015 at 11:25 AM
Anonymous said...
At first I thought this was part of Empire Biscuit. But I was confusing the empires I guess!
July 7, 2015 at 12:56 PM
Anonymous said...
Wake me up when this is over, and luxury living turn to squats.
Tiny Empire opened in Williamsburg a few years back.
Here's owner Anthony Spadaro in an interview with Cool Hunting from January:
"I was part of a strange teen angst movement called vegan/straight-edge; ultimately a continuation of punk. We hung out in skate shops, backyard half pipes and health food stores in upstate New York; caused trouble, skated and drank juice (sort of the antithesis of what people think of when they think juice). The activism fell off a while back, but juice has remained pretty constant. I came to the end of a career as a tattooer a few years ago, and it seemed obvious to pursue something based in juice/health, so I opened a juice bar in Woodstock, NY in 2010 (not Tiny Empire), and then Tiny Empire in 2012."
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Close this window Jump to comment formSpring and Lafayette? That's practically the Wall Street area. Are you expanding your coverage now?
July 7, 2015 at 8:14 AM
Midtown Deep South
July 7, 2015 at 9:23 AM
They come and go here as well. Spring Street Natural, the cultural-culinary cornerstone of this nabe, was just recently forced to move.
Nice to see you so plugged in, Tiny, but the juice bar craze helped to kill the LES nabe as well. Keep it to tats or skateboard shops and we'll all be happier.
July 7, 2015 at 9:25 AM
I remember those upstate punks. Two rival vegan/straight edge gangs terrorized a small town after one of their leaders was thrown out of a health food store.
July 7, 2015 at 11:25 AM
At first I thought this was part of Empire Biscuit. But I was confusing the empires I guess!
July 7, 2015 at 12:56 PM
Wake me up when this is over, and luxury living turn to squats.
July 7, 2015 at 10:33 PM