Well, this doesn’t seem very gracious at all.
The block of 68th Street between Broadway and Columbus was littered with boxes and debris late Tuesday night. DNAinfo reported that the trash “included Gracious Home mailing labels, bags, packing tape, invoices, stickers and receipts, as well as boxes addressed to the company.”
Gracious Home closed on Dec. 14 after 18 years on Broadway between 67th and 68th. The company has filed for bankruptcy.
Our attempts to contact company reps were unsuccessful.
Photos by Ghostwriter.
Worst sidewalk sale ever.
…actually, and I’m not usually one to “dumpster dive”, but they threw away perfectly good merchandise along with all that stuff. Came away with a $550 lamp, a $170 crystal bowl, still sealed down comforters/pillows, candles and a few other overly priced items that they decided to throw away instead of donating.
I now wouldn’t shop in any Gracious Home. Certainly NOT gracious, this total disregard for the neighborhood.
You won’t be shopping in any Gracious Homes because they’re gone for good. The items/boxes were probably left out by late shift employees who were told to clear out the merchandise ASAP. If the owners wanted to donate items they would have had to make those arrangements beforehand. Duane Reade used to do the same thing years ago whenever they’d revamp their stores. I was working on the UES and thousands of $$$ worth of merchandise was left out on the sidewalk and everyone in the neighborhood was quite happy about it. Kudos to anyone who got these pricey items!
I’m not sad to see the place go. It was really pretentious, with prices surpassing even ABC Carpets, certain candles at $75? Getting to the point of bankruptcy takes years of neglect. They didn’t drop prices in order to increase sales? Greedy. They really didn’t sell anything that exclusive anyway—nothing you could easily find either at Bed/Bath, or online, and probably at half the price. I don’t appreciate walking into a store and immediately feeling like it’s over-priced for no real reason. I went there a few times, trying to find a last-minute gift for a snooty friend perhaps, but that’s about it.
Well, well…a perfectly nice 3-level retail space on the high-visibility corner of a high-density street !
PERFECT for a GOOD supermarket (multiple levels don’t seem to bother customers of Trader Joe’s, Bed-Bath-and-Beyond, etc.).
How do we attract the likes of a clean, well-stocked, not-terribly-expensive operation like Morton-Williams or Westside Market ????
Can you tell me what happened to Zen Nail on n West 72nf street that has closed signs on the window.
Thank you
What the heck?! I had an appointment for the 24th. I just called them when I saw your message and they’re open until 10:00 tonight and they’re not closing. They didn’t know anything about a closed sign.
It’s worse than described there were credit card numbers of customers in this trash along with addresses and personal information. I called the police to let them know of the potential identity theft this could cause.
You went through the trash?
Why not? Everyone and their mother is “dumpster diving” these days.
You walk along any avenue or street in the evening or late at night and almost every single rubbish bag placed out for collection by supermarkets, shops, stores, etc… have been ransacked.
There are persons both homeless or not that make doing this their nightly job. They roam the streets armed with shopping bags, carts, flashlights… some even bring their own latex gloves.
We saw a perfectly healthy young woman using her Iphone flashlight while digging through a garbage bag in front of Duane Reade one night.
Then there is the whole “Freegan” cult. Persons perfectly able to afford buying food or whatever, but feel compelled to dig through trash to “rescue” valuable things under the idea they are “saving the planet” by reducing waste.
For good reportage of the Diggers, SF 1960s, I recommend “Sleeping Where I Fall”, Peter Coyote.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Slow news day?
Perhaps you should look into the possibility that the landlord did this. Gracious (“We will not be oversold.”) Home is bankrupt and out of business. Owes the landlord 1.3 million. Likely didn’t pay its wholesalers, either.
So the question is who put the stuff on the street? The bankrupt and out of business store? Or the owner of the property?
Having seen what just one or several “dumpster divers” can do to a pile of rubbish, am not quick to blame GH on this mess.
Pass any supermarket or other shop in evening or overnight and you’ll see one or more persons opening bags placed out for rubbish collection, taking what they want/need and scattering the contents. You see the same in back of Bloomingdales, and along 57th Street (or at the loading docks for buildings in the rear on 56th street).
Was actually at the GH store on Third Avenue last Tuesday when they were receiving truck loads of merchandise transferred from the closed UWS store. Cannot understand then if or why so much “valuable” merchandise was thrown out to the curb. Can only guess that the LL gave GH the one day to clear out and what couldn’t be transferred (lack of room, deemed not worth bothering, etc…) was put out to the curb.
If this had been a bankruptcy sale from the start, normally a trustee assigned company takes care of disposal of inventory. What does not sell is often sold to various resellers/bidders. This is where a good part of the various online merchandise/deals come from.
Good gracious!
I paid for a sofa back in October to be delivered in 8 weeks. Kept the money, no call returned from Customer Service and no sofa. So disappointed. Loved the store and such bad customer service in the end. Out all the money 🙁
I would open a complaint with your credit card issuer at once. Now that GH has officially filed for bankruptcy all outgoing funds will have to be approved by the trustee/court IIRC.
By filing a claim with your CC they will refund your money (hopefully) and deal with the mess of GH and their bankruptcy.
If you used a credit card you can dispute that and get the money back.
Hard to blame retail employees getting fired right before Christmas for not caring more about keeping the sidewalk clean. Clearing out the store is often a condition of getting severance, but no one says you have to do a good job.