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Closed for Business: 5th Ave Jewelry, 525 Fifth Avenue
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 10:26AM 
The little jewelry store on Fifth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets has closed. It's official name was 88 Chinita Jewelry, but its sign simply said "5th Ave Jewelry."
Relatively anonymous, not the subject of any great fanfare, but a longtime, worthy business nonetheless. The character of this end of Fifth Avenue is changing rapidly, with the addition of lots of new bars and restaurants and the loss of the old guard of dollar stores and businesses just like this one.
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Reader Comments (10)
Not hard to understand, considering that the jewlry store just down the block btw 10th and 11th closed last year. That end of fifth is the last affordable place in the neighborhood for new businesses to go thats remotely affordable.
Is this the old school place with chairs inside or the other smaller place across the street that basically did jewelry repair and sold some jewelry?
If "affordable" means "shitty dollar stores" then I'm glad that end of the nabe is getting less affordable.
As you point out, the homogenization of Park Slope continues.
Fifth Ave.....and Fourth Ave., too. I'm going to miss that grubby collection of auto parts stores, repair shops and flat tire fixing joints.
Now, there are shiny apartment buildings..and bars, bars, bars.
Yes I know it's horrible all these new jobs and tax paying citizens moving into the neighborhood!
I want my auto parts store back! Now that's one I haven't heard before.
This area has 10 dollar stores and 6 jewelry repair stores. It's overkill and you are suggesting that even the more diverse residents in this part of the slope don't deserve to have nice things in their area that cost more than 99 cents and made in China.
I will not miss this jewelry store or any of the other ones that buy gold along 5th avenue. When my home was robbed a few years ago and the cops were able to catch one of the robbers, he told them that he took my jewelry to these stores and sold it. These shitty stores are just as bad as pawn shops buying anything that they could melt down and sell. Since when does a skinny drug addict own a Cartier ring? Come on. Good riddance shady 5th Avenue.
I am happy that this end of 5th avenue is getting a new look. There are so many new beautiful apartment buildings in south slope!!! Let's bring some nice business to south slope as well!!!!
-For example: Why in the world are they opening 3 BBQ places on the same block????? One should come to South Slope!!!!!!-it would have been an instant success!!!!
Oh it will all come soon enough. The South Slope and Gowanus areas are very "hot" right now for new development, retail, restaurants and bars. As the arena comes into play, these areas are going to explode with revitalization. We see that happening right now. 4th Avenue in the span of two years has completely changed (for the better in my opinion) despite the fact that many of those buildings are not terribly beautiful, to put it mildly. Now it's coming to 3rd, all of 5th on south into the teens, flatbush and we even see it spilling onto 7th ave from flatbush into greenwood heights as nearly every vacant space has been snatched up in the past few months.
Blingbling, I'm with you on the auto stores. What's wrong with keeping some decent jobs & services?
Garry Jewelers (10th/11th) closed in '09. Nice people, & a beautiful storefront. I wonder what Michael, the owner is planning to do with the place.
Change is inevitable, but I'm sorry the South Slope/Greenwood stretch of Fifth is altering so rapidly now. I like it much better than the stretch north of 9th Street & have enjoyed nice, affordable things there (beyond 99c stores) for many years. As have a lot of older &/or "more diverse" tax paying citizens.
Michael, the owner of Garry's Jewelers had heart problems, i always assumed that is why the store closed.
And, people do need auto parts stores! LOL, not saying I want the neighborhood filled with them, but, they are needed, as are inexpensive jewelers where you can get some links taken out of a watch band without it costing you $15 per watch (yes, a jeweler on 7th Avenue actually tried to charge me that much for taking 2 links out of a watch!)