Reply With QuoteCheck this place out. I have not been there myself but he's been in business forever---
http://www.houseofoldies.com/home.html
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If I asked this before or the topic has been covered elsewhere I apologise.
I am looking to get some vinyl whilst I'm in New York. I recall somewhere, maybe here mentioning about some record shop in Brooklyn that you have to wear breathing masks for, but can't remember its name or where in Brooklyn it is. Also through my research I understand there are quite a few second hand vinyl shops around Greenwich Village, but do they sell Disco? Any recommendations truly appreciated!
Indie Release [Level 4]
Check this place out. I have not been there myself but he's been in business forever---
http://www.houseofoldies.com/home.html
Indie Release [Level 4]
there is another thread somewhere.
but the dirty one in brooklyn is "the thing" 1001 manhattan ave in greenpoint.
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I know!! Can't find it!! :evil: :evil:Originally Written by speculator
That's the one!! Thanks!
I rang them yesterday and they do do Disco, Soul & Funk so will check them out. So thanks for the advice. I guess they will be more expensive as I imagine rates and rent are higher in Greenwich Village then Brooklyn.Check this place out. I have not been there myself but he's been in business forever---
http://www.houseofoldies.com/home.html
Indie Release [Level 4]
Prices probably will be higher in Manhattan than in Brooklyn. House of Oldies has a huge selection though. That part of Greenwich Village west of 6th Avenue sort of around Bleecker Street used to have a few used record stores. I don't if any others are still in business. Walk around the neighborhood.
Underground Hit [Level 5]
2 Great shops :
1 - Vinylmania : 60 Carmine Street
New York, NY, 10014
In the Village, nice shop but prices can be high. Vinylmania used to be a label on which "Love Honey, Love Heartache" and "Winners" by Man Friday and produced by Mr Larry Levan, among others, were released first.
2 - ?
The second one is on essex Street in The Lower East Side. records are not sorted, the shop is messy but it's a real Ali baba Cavern. You can find anything you want, prices can be attractive, it's the best address in Manhattan. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the shop.
Indie Release [Level 4]
that place on essex isn;t there anymore..
vinylmania, dance tracks, academy (in brooklyn), bleeker bobs, gimmee gimmee, rock & soul, a1, sound library, good records, kim's video, norman's sound & vision, and various other shops around the east & west village..
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Fantastic info - many thanks!!
Indie Release [Level 4]
There was a place in Brooklyn called "Joseph's Tape World" on Coney Island Avenue & Avenue Y. He had a huge assortment of vinyl. I get nothing back from Googling but he may still be there. Can any Brooklynites on this board confirm this?
Indie Release [Level 4]
never heard of it.. but i can ask around.. sounds interesting.. i bet it isn;t there.. but i would love it if it were..
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Well just to say that time did not permit me going around all the 2nd hand vinyl shops I wanted to - but did make a point of going to www.houseofoldies.com run by Bob (who I guess now is Bleeker Bob) - what a great guy - spent a small fortune and have returned with a load of interesting vinyl that is in great condition as well as sounds fantastic. I don't think he was the sheapest I could have found but he was open when I got there :o , and had a reasonable collection and took time out to help me - so thanks for all the suggestions.....
BTW NYC is just a fantastic city - we didn't just sdo the usual touristy things - but saw elements on the city that most tourists would avoid, not bother with or not interested in....once you get used to dealing with all the hustlers!!! I even got on TV & radio - got interviewed about that bloody cat that got stuck in the wall on the East Side - some slightly gullible TV journo believed me when I said we'd come all the way from the UK as we had heard about the cat on the Internet and wanted to help!! :roll: :o :D :D :D
Indie Release [Level 4]
Hilarious!! So called sophisticated reporters are really among the most naive and gullible people. I love it!! Did you get to see any of the other boroughs during your visit?
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Well saw a bit of Queens on the drive from the airport and Brooklyn from a distance - a trip to Woodbury Common allowed us to see a bit of the 'burbs too. We mainly roamed around Manhattan - taking in all the areas - going as far North as the southern tip of Harlem - Upper & Lower West & East Sides, spent half a day in Central Park (with what seemed everyone else in New York), Uptown, Mid Town, Downtown. Chelsea, SoHo, Hudson Street, Chinatown, (very) Little Italy, the Village, Financial District, Battery Park, then plus the usual tourist hangouts - loved it all and want to go back!!Hilarious!! So called sophisticated reporters are really among the most naive and gullible people. I love it!! Did you get to see any of the other boroughs during your visit?
Gold Record [Level 7]
Headlamp....I know!! Can't find it!! :evil: :evil:
That's the one!! Thanks!
I rang them yesterday and they do do Disco, Soul & Funk so will check them out. So thanks for the advice. I guess they will be more expensive as I imagine rates and rent are higher in Greenwich Village then Brooklyn.Check this place out. I have not been there myself but he's been in business forever---
http://www.houseofoldies.com/home.html
we are expecting a rundown of what you find when you get back home :D
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I think I did reasonably well....I've 'scanned' listened to all of them now...I knew quite a few already but didn't have and bought a few 'on spec'....
All 12" or albums
First Time Around - Skyy (only ever seen a 7" of this before)
Disconet Volume 4 Program 10 (never had one of these before)
You're The One - Rory Block
Love Hustle - Family Affair
DJ Rogers - Trust Me
Tango In Space - Space
Slap Slap Lickedy Lap - Instant Funk (never seen it on 12" before)
The Players Association - Love Hangover/I Like It (from 1977 in perfect condition)
You Gotta Dance - Pacific Blue
Love Exciter - El Coco (have it on an album not 12")
Frankie Crocker Heart & Soul Orchestra - LP (hopefully it will be grow on me)
Passion Tracking Vol. 2 - High Energy compilation which I don't have much of.
Plato's Retreat - Joe Thomas
Lime - Your Love (more High energy)
Love Dancin - Marlena Shaw
Stone To The Bone - Timmy Thomas
Morning Music - Siren (Promo)
Don't Take Away Your Love - Hodges James & Smith
Off The Wall - Fat Larry's Band - Off The Wall (I thought it was Michael Jackson's album!! :o :lol:)
In The City - The Jam - not for me but a friend who collects Paul Weller
I'm going to be pre-recording my radio show for this Saturday (entitled 'The Disco Sounds Of New York') in the next day or two and I'm sure that most of these tracks will feature!! What I did find amazing was that wherever you went a lot of Disco was played as background music in shops, bars, restaurants, even Woodberry Common.
Chart Hit [Level 6]
Sounds like Saturday's show will be a good one :)
I'm going to be pre-recording my radio show for this Saturday (entitled 'The Disco Sounds Of New York') in the next day or two and I'm sure that most of these tracks will feature!! What I did find amazing was that wherever you went a lot of Disco was played as background music in shops, bars, restaurants, even Woodberry Common.
FYI - Siren's B side "Open Up For Love" was the hit here in the Tri State area- and one of my alltime favorite songs.
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It's in the show - I'll be posting the playlist and times in the other part of the forum later today or tomorrow. Hope you enjoy!!Sounds like Saturday's show will be a good one :)
I'm going to be pre-recording my radio show for this Saturday (entitled 'The Disco Sounds Of New York') in the next day or two and I'm sure that most of these tracks will feature!! What I did find amazing was that wherever you went a lot of Disco was played as background music in shops, bars, restaurants, even Woodberry Common.
FYI - Siren's B side "Open Up For Love" was the hit here in the Tri State area- and one of my alltime favorite songs.
Indie Release [Level 4]
Sorry about the late post...I can confirm that Joseph's Tape World in Brooklyn is no longer around. Music Factory, on Kings Highway, is...but not used records. They did stock tons of reissued vinyl 12" from Unidisc, et al, at one point.
Indie Release [Level 4]
For all you Vinyl Junkies, from the 05/07/2006 New York Times:
May 7, 2006
Greenpoint
Vinyl Underground
By NATHANIEL RICH
TURBO TERRIFIC — a D.J. who gave no other name — was standing on an overturned milk crate in front of a tall bookshelf filled with records. "I don't think of myself as a record collector," he said as he flipped through the records on the top shelf. "Collecting is like a cult; it's crazy. Records are dusty, they take up space, and they weigh a lot. Why do you need them?"
As evidence, he pulled out a beat-up copy of the Jacksons' "Victory." "I'll be lucky if I find one good record all day," he said. "But I'm picky: I own 15,000 records."
It was a typically busy recent Sunday at the Thing, an inconspicuous thrift store hidden deep in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, that is home to one of the city's largest collection of vinyl records. Though vinyl may be a format on life support, long since replaced by an ever-expanding array of newer technology, you wouldn't know it from the vitality of the scene at the Thing.
While several stores claim to have the city's largest inventory of vinyl, including Beat Street Records on Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn and House of Oldies on Carmine Street in the West Village, the Thing is unquestionably a contender.
From street level, it is indistinguishable from the other thrift stores scattered along Manhattan Avenue. Its main floor is a crowded mishmash of ramshackle furniture, rusty automobile parts, strangers' photograph albums, used paperbacks and winter jackets.
But far in the back, a narrow staircase leads to a dank, low-ceilinged basement, where, under harsh fluorescent lights, is a sight to awe any vinyl enthusiast: three long aisles of floor-to-ceiling shelves packed tightly with tens of thousands of records. Crowding the aisles, and blocking many of the shelves, are stacks of milk crates filled with more records. Every record sells for $2. They are not sorted in any way.
"Some guys hit the golf course; I come to this place," said Robert Marianetti, an animator from Greenpoint who says he buys about 30 records at the Thing every week. "I think I've been here about an hour. But I might have been here two days, for all I know."
Sorting through the inventory, Mr. Marianetti had created two piles. The first was records he might buy. The other one?
"When I find something good that I can't use, I put it to one side for the other customers," he explained. One of those records was a mint copy of the Moody Blues' 1965 debut album, "Go Now/Moody Blues No. 1." He already owned one.
"This would easily go for $25," he said, "if this was Manhattan."
Larry Fisher, the store's burly, affable manager, acquires the records through estate sales, auctions and classified newspaper ads. He also handles special bulk orders.
Last month, in three major sales, he sold 350 crates of records. "So for us," he said, "we're empty."
In the six years since the Thing opened, the collection has expanded, creeping up the stairs and onto the main floor. There are now about 100,000 records downstairs, with an additional 30,000 upstairs. As Max Senchak, a heavy-metal musician who works in the store, put it, "It's grown into something horrible."
In the face of such quantity, not to mention such chaos, overwhelmed customers develop coping strategies. Around the time Mr. Marianetti was discovering the Moody Blues album, Sam Brown, a 24-year-old writer and actor from Williamsburg on his first trip to the store, was trying to focus on Phil Collins. He hit upon a simple tactic.
"All of his records have white cursive writing on the spine," he said. "So I just looked for the cursive." Mr. Brown had nearly 20 records in his pile.
"It's a labyrinth down here," he said. "I feel like Indiana Jones."
The following day, Chris Frost, who has been going to the store for four years, explained his system for finding new acquisitions as soon as they arrive. "The new crates are delivered close to the door," confided Mr. Frost, a handbag sample maker, part-time D.J. and casual collector from East Williamsburg. "You can easily tell. They're just neater."
Not so, according to Mr. Senchak.
"They think they know where we put the new shipments," he said with a malevolent grin. "But I pick a different spot every single time."
Later that afternoon, a hip-hop producer from Bushwick named Tavish Graham was intensifying his search. He scanned the shelves quickly, looking for records with beats he could sample.
"I'm in the zone," he said. "There's no methodology here. Everyone's looking for the same thing: a sound you've never heard before, a missing blank in your vision of the world. See?"
Triumphantly he pulled a record from the shelf, a 1985 single by Baron, featuring the songs "The Jammer," "Priscilla" and "Feeling It." A caption on the jacket described the record as "a delicious Calypsoul stew."
As closing time approached, Turbo Terrific was still perched on his milk crate. He still hadn't found anything worth buying.
"The goal, of course, is to go through the whole collection," he said. "But the records shift around every day, so it's impossible to keep track of what you've already seen. I've heard guys talk about hiding downstairs overnight. If you brought food and a flashlight, and you weren't afraid of the rats, or the roaches, or these weird gooey bugs that live in the shelves, then it just might be possible to make it through the whole collection in one night."
He paused, then dismissed the idea with a wave of his hand. "But those are some crazy dudes that talk like that."
The Thing: 1001 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn 718-349-8234
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/ny...ty/07viny.html
Indie Release [Level 4]
Joseph's started out as a dingy place crammed with used vinyl records. I bought quite a few records there, many of which I still have with the little 'JTW' price stickers on them. He had customers who really did stay in the place for hours on end. I remember one saturday two of the 'interesting' regulars sat down and had soup like it was a diner. These two guys must have been there every weekend because whenever I was there on a Saturday , they were there. These two guys wore ill-fiiting suits and rode to the store on bicycles. Like I said, 'interesting'.
The store was nicely remodeled in about 1986 but soon became cluttered again with vinyl records. I sold him a lot of my vinyl when I was moving out of Brooklyn in 1990. I don't know when he closed up. The owner was always a pleasant guy to deal with, even when he had to put up with a lot of weird record-obsessed customers.
Acetate [Level 1]
across from house of oldies is vinylmania they use to be really big for classic disco you just have to look around there in the village also
http://www.carminestreet.com/vinylmania.html
Last edited by djoem; May 12th, 2006 at 02:39 PM.
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The problem was that I was in Carmine Street at around 9.30am on the day I was in Greenwich Village (having already walked around Chinatown, down Delancey Street & Little Italy) - so Vinylmania was closed!
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Test Pressing [Level 2]
Hi,
I shall be in New york at the end of august, jsut wondered if the stores mentioned in this thread were still open. The last post was 2 years ago so guess things may have moved on since then.
Looking for stores specialising in Disco or course!
Thanks.
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
New and used record stores are vanishing fast in NYC (and just about everywhere else). I can confirm that Vinylmania is gone, as are many of the other places I used to wander in to.
Gold Record [Level 7]
Here is a link to a recent thread discussing New York City record stores. In some of my posts are links to articles pointing out those shops still around.
But call ahead.
http://www.discomusic.com/forums/sho...e-vinyl-stores
Good Luck
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