{"id":312641,"date":"2026-08-03T17:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312641\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:20:28","slug":"ev-grieve-flamingos-vintage-pound-to-open-another-east-village-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312641\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: Flamingos Vintage Pound to open another East Village shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiUWxivnk4pIdcaYZ4htWDDnSSXLML8tXv8OFbixi0yXEVZhK6aLy5Bxf8crmBCbBhyphenhyphenPsgLyIpckHlBxX_Udxru_T5sga3aMy2L5ofdOn-XCtH-3Dbu9pafJH2twuytgPZzE4ySZxNaAmokEm-9UWXk5CXyNGkQjURrMIn0arrpPKyq5Bs429Tda01VN_g\/s4032\/IMG_5212.HEIC\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5212.HEIC.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flamingos Vintage Pound is returning to First Avenue, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DbWOsaBxe6X\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram account<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The retailer&#8217;s latest location will be 199 First Ave. between 12th Street and 13th Street, a former smoke shop-convenience store.<\/p>\n<p>An opening date has not been announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shop sells secondhand clothing by the pound \u2014 currently priced at $17.99 per pound \u2014 and frequently offers discounts on larger purchases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This will be Flamingos&#8217; second East Village location. The company opened a shop at 4 St. Mark&#8217;s Place <a href=\"https:\/\/evgrieve.com\/2025\/05\/flock-this-way-flamingos-vintage-pound.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in May 2025<\/a>.\u00a0The opening also marks a return to First Avenue for Flamingos. Before the pandemic, the retailer operated stores near Ninth Street and on 11th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, as well as a location on Stanton Street. All three eventually closed, with the First Avenue shop being the last to shutter <a href=\"https:\/\/evgrieve.com\/2021\/11\/flamingos-vintage-pound-checks-out.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the fall of 2021.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Flamingos now operates more than 40 locations in the United States and abroad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The expansion comes as thrift and resale shopping continues to grow in popularity, with more shoppers seeking affordable clothing and one-of-a-kind vintage finds while extending the life of existing garments.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flamingos Vintage Pound is returning to First Avenue, according to its Instagram account.\u00a0 The retailer&#8217;s latest location will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-312641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312641","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=312641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}