Fifty dollars in most of New York gets you lunch and a bad attitude about it. Fifty dollars in a warehouse store gets you a full tote bag and a story to tell about the price tag.
Eight of them make that possible, selling closeouts, overstock, secondhand finds, and rolls of designer fabric at numbers that look like somebody entered them wrong. Nobody corrects it. That is the whole appeal.
The buildings themselves are all over the place, which is part of the fun. A few operate out of Chinatown walk-ups where you climb stairs to find them…