I noticed a bunch of hits (okay, like six hits, but that's a lot for me) coming here from Curbed in reference to this old post about the (now) sadly departed Lismore Hosiery Shop.  On the plus side, I'm happy to report the post on Curbed proves that I can see into the future!  Just as I predicted - back in 2005, no less - the Lismore Hosiery Shop is now in the process of being converted into hideous luxury condomiums!  Hurray!  It's a great day for me and my psychic powers.  It's only a matter of time before the building begins advertising "loft-like living."

I'm loving how New York is one of the few places where someone will be paying something in the neighborhood of $1 Million dollars to live in a luxury condo across the street from a store so filthy that they need to use their window display to house the additional filth, as shown in my previously posted pictures of the store that will be across the street from the new condos, the Ideal Hosiery Shop.  Remember that children's storybook about the little anthropomorphic house that had a city grow up around it, until the house finally got shipped out the country?  If I were the Ideal Hosiery Shop, I'd be getting real nervous, 'cause in real life they don't ship cute little houses out to the country when the city grows up around them, instead they just get knocked down or have huge tumorous growths made out of condominiums sprout from their heads, which isn't quite so cute.

Speaking of the Lismore, if any of you have pictures of hideous window displays, why not join my Flickr photo group, Window Displays Of The Living Dead? You can become one of the Lismorons and post all your favorite Lismorish pictures.  So far it's just me and Jill in the club, but if you want to join, you can be Vice President.

That is all.