{"id":2238,"date":"2011-11-20T18:20:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T22:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2011-11-20T18:20:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T22:20:06","slug":"leeds-radio-featured-in-the-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/leeds-radio-featured-in-the-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds Radio featured in the NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source: NY Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

WHEN an insurance company declared the merchandise at Leeds Radio \u201cnot pilferable\u201d last year, it meant that the store\u2019s hundreds of thousands of analog electronic parts \u2014 all manufactured before 1968 \u2014 were unlikely to be stolen anytime soon.<\/p>\n

[…]And yet Leeds, one of the oldest electronics stores in the country, has plenty of paying customers. Located at 68 North Seventh Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, two blocks from the Bedford Avenue stop of the L train, it attracts a steady stream of musicians, hi-fi aficionados, ham radio buffs and the kind of people who build Tesla coils in their basements.<\/p>\n

The 2,500-square-foot space smells like a vintage record shop (an odor Mr. Matthews describes as equal parts phenolic resin, adhesive, old cardboard and wire insulation) and appears shockingly disorganized. Cubist piles of boxes overflow with switches, capacitors, Bakelite knobs and watt meters. The floor glitters with the glass of shattered vacuum tubes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like my radio room, though on a much, much larger scale…the part with piles of boxes, at least. Thanks to the Herculodge<\/a>\u00a0for leading me to the NY Times article. We actually posted another article about Leeds Radio<\/a>\u00a0when it was featured on WNYC. As both articles mention, radio parts shops like Leeds are certainly on the decline [understatement alert]–luckily, the internet opens up a whole world of mom-and-pop vendors like Leeds, though with a virtual store front, so there is still hope.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: NY Times) WHEN an insurance company declared the merchandise at Leeds Radio \u201cnot pilferable\u201d last year, it meant that the store\u2019s hundreds of thousands of analog electronic parts \u2014 all manufactured before 1968 \u2014 were unlikely to be stolen anytime soon. 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