{"id":148227,"date":"2026-02-28T08:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148227\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:14:14","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-hardware-stores-see-business-boom-from-this-winters-numerous-snowstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148227\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Hardware stores see business boom from this winter&#8217;s numerous snowstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For hardware stores across the city, snow on the ground means cash on the counter.<\/p>\n<p>With two major snow events so far this winter, customers like Anthony Cheeseman says he&#8217;s had enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully, we don\u2019t get any snow, but we expect some, so be prepared,&#8221; said Cheeseman<\/p>\n<p>Business has been booming for hardware stores like Brooklyn&#8217;s Best Locksmith and Hardware in Flatlands<\/p>\n<p>Floor manager Les Veldes says the snow this season has been great for business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis season&#8217;s been great, you know, because when all the big stores run out, everyone comes here,&#8221; said Veldes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hasn\u2019t been like this in 10 years. This winter actually helps a lot more,&#8221; said Veldes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For hardware stores across the city, snow on the ground means cash on the counter. With two major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,8555,55360,40488,19641,50523,49680,30712,55359,34018,49106],"class_list":{"0":"post-148227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-snow","15":"tag-snow-aftermath","16":"tag-snow-cleanup","17":"tag-snow-removal","18":"tag-snow-shoveling","19":"tag-snowblower","20":"tag-snowfall","21":"tag-snowmelt","22":"tag-snowstorm","23":"tag-snowstorm-preps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}