Memorial Day rings in the summer season and, along with barbecue equipment, beach toys and sandals, stores are beginning to pad their shelves with sunscreen.
The store, the Allan Block Sandal Shop at 171 West Fourth Street, was just a few minutes' walk from Washington Square Park and from the Folklore Center on Macdougal Street, where perpetual musical performances, both impromptu and planned, made Greenwich Village the red-hot center of the so-called folk revival.
According to police, someone had found a handgun and sandal in the store's parking lot.
At the Italian boutique Patrizia Pepe, saleswomen are wearing sandals and sporting the store's spring line.
What about the yearly summer ritual of buying new sandals at the dime store, or how funny and grown-up it felt to hobble around in your parents' enormous shoes?
Even copying and pasting the reasoning behind this object's existence into the description box was almost enough to make us wear dollar-store sandals and combat boots the rest of our lives.
Meet him from 2 to 4 p.m. on the second floor and have him sign your favorite pair of shoes — say, a knee-high glitter suede studded gladiator sandal ($2,625) exclusive to the store.
Get a few new shoes and sandals at a reasonably-priced store, like Payless (it's fashionable, and no one has to know).
To avoid being spotted by cartel lookouts, the DEA agents and Mexican marines went to a local discount store to buy shorts, sandals, and beachwear.
One day an English choreographer came in wanting to buy sandals, so Mr. Melissinos' father, in charge of the store then, made a pair of Spartan sandals for her (the style is No. 25, but is believed to be the original Greek sandal design); in fact, she wanted six.
