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Mihir Kedia's avatar

https://twitter.com/BrocanteBedStuy exists, though not sure if related. The linked website in the profile was never archived in the wayback machine (https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/http://brocantebedstuy.com/)

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Aaron Cohn's avatar

My tin hat conspiracy: Brocante = Broke + Auntie?

Auntie who owned the store (and the property) went broke. Then she disappeared. No one knows where she went. But also no one is coming after the property — not worth the city's time to try and collect taxes. So here it sits.

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