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Warby Parker to Open Third New York Store

Eyeglass retailer takes over 100-year-old drugstore

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10 years ago

March 21, 2014

steve kaufman

Warby Parker, New York-based eyeglass and sunglass retailer, will open its third retail location in the city this weekend.

The retailer, which began strictly as an online operation, will take over a historic space on Lexington Avenue and 82nd Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that was Lascoff Drugs for more than 100 years. The two-story store building boasts 21-foot cathedral ceiling. The high walls will feature original artwork by Maira Kalman hanging alongside the building’s gothic windows.

The company’s other two New York locations are on Greene Street in SoHo and on Washington Street in the Meatpacking District.

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