Guests stroll around the corner to the smart and light-filled restaurant, once a leather warehouse, for breakfasts of homemade breads and pastries – and, of course, a gourmet "full Irish".
A century old, it's an old brick building, and a former leather warehouse that was the focus of a gut rehab.
Perhaps, in a past era, this corridor was constructed to facilitate easier transportation of people and goods between two leather warehouses owned by the same company.
These buildings may date back to the late 1800s, as an 1895 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map shows that "Leather" warehouses and factories had already begun cropping up along Utica and Lincoln Streets back then.
The main street of Lecong is a five-mile Vegas-like stretch of gaudy showrooms and exhibition centers, factories and cavernous warehouses, leather suppliers and timber yards, all dedicated to making and selling furniture.
Print-on-demand in the long term is a superior option, but, given current technological limitations (it can't do fancy things like faux-leather covers and so on), operating as a warehouse storefront is the better current option.
And now that you mention it, what about that leather couch that had left his home for the warehouse three days earlier?
The studio on the top floor of an old warehouse building is one of chocolate, plush leather and massive lanterns.
Pulling the camera from the pocket of his leather jacket, he showed off a snapshot of an enormous warehouse standing in isolation on a desolate block in Bushwick.
These are businesses where fine art is warehoused, where antiques are restored, where jewelry and leather garments are made — where the prosperous life, so much and so misleadingly in evidence in modern New York, receives its methodical upkeep.
This Saturday, Oct. 27, BoConcepts will offer up to 70 percent off its warehouse goods (the Serena high-back dining chair in black leather, regularly $149, will be $69 2020 Pulaski Street, Bayonne, N.J.; (201) 433-4461.
