Re: [CR]Oldest Bike Shop NYC

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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:04:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Rafael Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Oldest Bike Shop NYC
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: 6667


Stuyvesant Bicycles is long gone. I believe that even their wholesale arm, Corso Distributors, is also defunct. As for the oldest currently functioning bicycle shop in NYC, I suspect you would have to go outside of Manhattan and look in Queens or Brooklyn. My guess would be Bellitte's in Jamaica, Queens. I don't know what the place is like these days but, in my youth, this was one of the places to go for everything from balloon tire bikes to track bikes to race on the flat oval at Flushing Meadow.

By the way, for whatever it's worth, I my _recollection_ is that Stuyvesant Bicycles's East Side location was 1st Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets. We used to walk there after high school classes, via a circuitous route that included the Gaiety Theater, Hudson's Army-Navy Store and the Valencia Bakery.
      Adios,
      Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)


--- Robert Kaufmann wrote:


> All:
>
> Thirty years seems a bit short. I remember going to
> Stuyvesant Bicycles on
> 13th in the early 70's to look at Atala's, and other italian
> bikes. I
> remember marvelling at the individual Campy components and
> the silk tubular
> tires for the track. I know that when I was going, the shp
> had been around
> since the 60's at a minimum.
>
> Since then, the shop has moved to 14 on the west side.
> Does that
> disqualify it?
>
> Robert Kaufmann
> Newton, MA
> _______________________________________________
>

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