[dorkbotnyc-blabber] RE: electronics stores

[Lee von kraus]

I don't know of anything other than radioshack but I did some searching and found these listings, if we all call some of the places up we can probably figure out if any are worth checking out (I tried to find websites for ones that looked promising but couldn't)

http://www.brooklynyes.com/brooklyn-Consumer-Electronics-shops.html
http://www.hellobrooklyn.com/Brooklyn_home_and_garden/Brooklyn_Electronics.html

-Lee

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:19:59 -0500
From: jebjeb at gmail.com
To: dorkbotnyc-blabber at music.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] [Fwd: FW: Interactives is hiring]

Sadly, the great rando electronics market of New York was destroyed in the name of urban renewal years ago.  Manhattan used to have its own little Akihabara down where the World Trade Center was.  That said, check out Leeds Radio (
http://www.leedselect.com/) in Williamsburg.  That has basic stuff, but it also has a wide variety of weird crap, especially tubes, tube sockets, stuff for building audio circuits like transformers, etc.  For certain electronic bits, there are a couple stores on Canal Street in the blocks immediately west of broadway that sell stuff, and another good resource is the lighting stores on Broadway downtown, but only for general electrical components, not like transistors.  As far as I know, though, there's no equivalent of like Active Surplus thats so cool that people write blog posts about it.  


Check out this depressing story: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE1D6133AF931A15754C0A9679C8B63


On Nov 29, 2007 9:36 PM, Adela Kuehn <adelalk at gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings one and all-

I remember this coming up in a post not too long ago, but I don't remember/can't find the response. I am looking for an electronics parts store in the city.  I'm not looking for anything complicated, just where I can find a decent selection of basic components; lets just say that my local RadioShack was laughable. Any suggestions? I just moved here from LA not too long ago and I really miss All Electronics, not to mention browsing in Apex; sigh...


Thank you,
Adela


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