economy

Park Slope's Record & Tape Center evicted, closing!

Record & Tape Center (Tishon)It’s nearly the day the music died in Park Slope. The Record and Tape Center, a dusty, cramped record store that has occupied the same spot on Fifth Avenue, near Ninth Street, for the past 38 years, will be shuttered by May 31, the result of an eviction notice that store owner Tony Mignone said came out of the blue…

New York Loses Its Jazz Festival (who lost JVC)

“Around this time of year, posters for the JVC Jazz Festival would be appearing on the streets of New York, and jazz tourists would be finalizing plans to arrive in the middle of June for two weeks of bragworthy shows…