Before going out of business in November, Urban Box Office, an Internet company specializing in hip-hop entertainment, had planned to move several hundred employees to the Mink Building, a former fur storage warehouse on 126th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
When you walk into the Fur Harvesters warehouse – locally known as the fur barns or fur factory – the first thing that hits you is the unmistakable smell of beef jerky.
I guess they made thousands of them, wrapped in some kind of real fur, and sent them to a warehouse for a while before shipping them to stores.
The animals just keep on dying at the Kiev Zoo, a place some have likened to an unkempt warehouse for those with fur and feathers.
"It's a huge warehouse just rammed with everything - fur coats, masses of jewellery, 60s dresses, 1980s ra-ra skirts and the prices are also brilliant.
Friedman was hired by Jordan Marsh to sell a warehouse that they had used for storing fur coats, so he did what any great real estate agent would do, he worked the phones to find a buyer.
By the time they came to ship the books, the warehouse was full of moths, and most of the fur had been eaten.
Grand Portage, with its two wharves and numerous warehouses, became one of Britain's four main fur trading posts, along with Niagara, Detroit, and Michilimackinac.
After scouring her Jersey City warehouse, Ms. Eisen carted in oversize mirrors, silk floral bouquets, faux fur throws and sleek wooden console tables.
In Boston one day, Dred-Peacock came to the Duke warehouse, a cavernous building near the docks, redolent of pine, oak, furs, and roots.
