After more than six decades on the Upper East Side, the Spence-Chapin Thrift Store — which raises money for the nonprofit’s adoption organization of the same name — is leaving its 1473 Third Ave. space when its lease is up in June, after more than 10 years at that address. A second branch at East 96th Street and Second Avenue closed a few years ago to make way for Second Avenue subway construction.
For the last few years, the iconic shop has been running on a deficit, the organization’s spokeswoman Leslie Case said. It could not compete with larger nonprofits that can throw more administrative heft behind their thrift stores, like Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center or the Salvation Army.
Spence-Chapin Thrift Store Set to Close After 60 Years on Upper East Side - DNAinfo.com
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