Barbara Kirecommends-Gimblookingcommends "lookintointhethe storefront workshops near Penn Station, where furriers prepare pelts on large tables under frosty blue lights, as if suspended in a mammoth ice cube".
Mr. Bush's visit here on a stifling summer day was meant to coincide with a celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright, who labored in a storefront bicycle workshop here in Dayton.
But I've made my serious foreign purchases in one of two ways: either a local friend or expatriate has steered me into a small, owner-operated storefront or home workshop, or I've wandered, on my own, into a shopping mall.
Fourth generation men's shoemaker Roberto Ugolini sells only custom-made pairs out of his compact workshop and storefront.
Passers-by who notice 25 small sculptural busts on a wall of shelves in this papermaking workshop's storefront gallery will find it hard not to be drawn inside.
It is an awesomely vast and odd place — a hundred acres encompassing two thousand workshops and storefronts and thirty thousand souls.
Raiding Canal Street he'd discovered doors behind the storefronts which led to workshops where thousands of counterfeit watches and bags were assembled and stored.
Instead of an after party, they converted a Mott Street storefront into a makeshift schoolroom and hosted graffiti, photography, and skateboard design workshops.
Months after stripping its shelves of books and selling its inventory, the storefront here is closed, but the building is still a hub for author events, workshops and open-mike readings of poetry and stories by women.
Among the artists included will be two — Marcos Dimas and Fernando Salicrup — who helped run community art workshops in those storefronts 40 years ago.
