One of New York City great institutions of nerdy delight, the Forbidden Planet store off Union Square, needs your help. After serving the city's sf, comics and media fans since 1981, it is in grave danger.
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As they writes, "At one point you couldn't walk a single block downtown without coming across an interesting shop, club or gallery space. Places like See Hear and Kim's Video lined the streets and liberated the minds of people who braved to enter their doors."
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NYC has homogenized, squeezing out the quirky, the odd, the delightful - basically everything except chain health clubs, CVS, Citibank, and multinational convenience stores.
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Stores like FP were already marginal outfits, and now they've exhausted that margin, thanks to a month of outgoings with no income. I don't have much slack in my own budget, but I'm donating. If you can afford to, I hope you will, too.
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