Another Video Store Vanishes, and Netflix Continues March Towards Global Dominance
At this point, visiting a video store is somewhat akin to smoking a pipe or traipsing around town on a penny farthing—well, unless you live in Williamsburg. But the city’s few survivors have trudged on, against all odds, for so long that it’s not only sad, but weirdly surprising, to see them go.
The latest casualty of the Netflix era is West Village staple Video World, The New York Times reports. After 30 years, the store will close on Saturday. It was one of Manhattan’s few holdouts, after Midtown East’s New York Video shut down its store last fall, reinventing itself as a DVD delivery service. Read More
