Beloved NYC watch repair-shop owner defies eviction, gentrification — by working from his car: ‘I don’t want to stop working’

Takes a licking — keeps on ticking.

For 42 years, David’s Shoe & Watch Repair shop was a staple at the corner of Hudson and Barrow in NYC’s West Village — repairing timepieces and mending soles for generations of loyal, local customers.

Through it all, proprietor Raphael “David” Davidson endured. Gentrification, COVID-19, brutal rent hikes — even a move down the block last year into the dry cleaners couldn’t stop the faithful watch man from tending to the ever-evolving neighborhood’s needs…

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