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class="infobox-image ib-company-logo logo"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Gem_Spa_from_north.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Gem_Spa_from_north.jpg/275px-Gem_Spa_from_north.jpg" decoding="async" width="275" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Gem_Spa_from_north.jpg/413px-Gem_Spa_from_north.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Gem_Spa_from_north.jpg/550px-Gem_Spa_from_north.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1642" data-file-height="1380" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">(2010)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category">Private</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Newsstand" class="mw-redirect" title="Newsstand">Newsstand</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Candy_store" class="mw-redirect" title="Candy store">Candy store</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data">none</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1921</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Goldfeder family</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">2020</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fate</th><td class="infobox-data">bankruptcy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data">Poetica Coffee<sup id="cite_ref-poetica_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-poetica-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label">131 <a href="/wiki/Second_Avenue_(Manhattan)" title="Second Avenue (Manhattan)">Second Ave.</a> at <a href="/wiki/St._Marks_Place_(Manhattan)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Marks Place (Manhattan)">St. Mark's Place</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, <div class="ib-company-locality locality">New York City</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Area served</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/East_Village,_Manhattan" title="East Village, Manhattan">East Village</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Egg_cream" title="Egg cream">Egg cream</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newspapers" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspapers">Newspapers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Magazines" class="mw-redirect" title="Magazines">Magazines</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Services</th><td class="infobox-data category">newspapers, magazine, food and mini mart services</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data">Goldfeder family (1920s-1957)<br />Ruby Silverstein and Harold Shepard (1957-~1969)<br />Irving Stein (1971)<br />Ray Patel (1986-2020)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Gem Spa</b> was a <a href="/wiki/Newspaper_stand" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspaper stand">newspaper stand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Candy_store" class="mw-redirect" title="Candy store">candy store</a> located on the corner of <a href="/wiki/St._Marks_Place_(Manhattan)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Marks Place (Manhattan)">St. Mark's Place</a> and <a href="/wiki/Second_Avenue_(Manhattan)" title="Second Avenue (Manhattan)">Second Avenue</a> in the <a href="/wiki/East_Village,_Manhattan" title="East Village, Manhattan">East Village</a> neighborhood of <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Eater-2020-05-07_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eater-2020-05-07-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It opened under another name in the 1920s, and was renamed in 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-anatomy_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-anatomy-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was open 24 hours a day, and was known for being commonly considered to be the birthplace of the authentic New York City–style <a href="/wiki/Egg_cream" title="Egg cream">egg cream</a>, which its awning described as "New York's Best."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-desrep_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-desrep-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Often referred to as a <a href="/wiki/Bodega_(store)" title="Bodega (store)">bodega</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in the 1950s, Gem Spa was a gathering place for <a href="/wiki/Beatnik" title="Beatnik">beats</a>, and in the 1960s it was a <a href="/wiki/Hippie" title="Hippie">hippie</a> hangout,<sup id="cite_ref-valentine_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-valentine-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> known for selling a wide selection of <a href="/wiki/Underground_newspapers" class="mw-redirect" title="Underground newspapers">underground newspapers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-trivia_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trivia-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Magazine">New York Magazine</a></i> named it the best newsstand in the East Village in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-best_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-best-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 7, 2020, owner Parul Patel announced that the physical store would not re-open due to the impact of the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> and rent increases, despite community efforts and a social media campaign to keep it open.<sup id="cite_ref-grieve_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grieve-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-closed_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-closed-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Eater-2020-05-07_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eater-2020-05-07-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The building in which Gem Spa was located, 131 Second Avenue, or 36 St. Marks Place, was built in 1898 to 1900 and was designed by Louis F. Heinecke in the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_Revival_architecture" title="Renaissance Revival architecture">Renaissance Revival style</a>. It is located within the <a href="/wiki/East_Village/Lower_East_Side_Historic_District" title="East Village/Lower East Side Historic District">East Village/Lower East Side Historic District</a>, which was created in October 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-desrep_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-desrep-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gem_Spa&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The site was an outlet for the Chain Shirt Shop in 1922, and "Gem's Spa" had opened by the 1950s.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-closed_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-closed-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sociologist <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Bell" title="Daniel Bell">Daniel Bell</a>, who claimed in the 1970s that his uncle Hymie created the egg cream, says that another man called Hymie owned a candy store serving egg creams on the site of Gem Spa in the 1920s.<sup id="cite_ref-edible_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-edible-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Village Voice</i> reported in the 1970s that people remembered going to the store before World War I.<sup id="cite_ref-closes_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-closes-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For thirty years up until 1957 the store was owned by the Goldfeder family.<sup id="cite_ref-anatomy_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-anatomy-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatleft" style="width:25%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>It had been a <a href="/wiki/Beat_Generation" title="Beat Generation">Beat</a> mecca in the 1950s, a hippie hangout in the sixties and more recently was the scene of a famous photograph of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Dolls" title="New York Dolls">Dolls</a>. </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">—<a href="/wiki/Gary_Lachman" title="Gary Lachman">Gary Valentine</a> of Blondie<sup id="cite_ref-valentine_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-valentine-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>From 1957 until at least 1969 the store was owned by Ruby Silverstein and Harold Shepard, who employed 11 staff to keep it open 24 hours a day – Silverstein estimated that every 30 seconds someone walked in the store. The clientele initially mainly bought Jewish and foreign-language papers, which began to change around 1963 as they sold more copies of the <i>Village Voice</i> and underground magazines. Silverstein and Shepard gave the store its current name, initially Gem's Spa - the name came from Gladys, Etta, and Miriam, the names of the wives of Silverstein and Shepard and Shepard's ex-wife.<sup id="cite_ref-anatomy_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-anatomy-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1966, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Village_Voice" title="The Village Voice">The Village Voice</a></i> called it the "official oasis of the <a href="/wiki/East_Village,_Manhattan" title="East Village, Manhattan">East Village</a>";<sup id="cite_ref-beat_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beat-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it was known as a "hippie hangout".<sup id="cite_ref-edible_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-edible-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman" title="Abbie Hoffman">Abbie Hoffman</a> gathered people for his 1967 protest at the New York Stock Exchange at Gem Spa,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg" title="Allen Ginsberg">Allen Ginsberg</a> called it a "nerve center" of the city,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Art_Workers%27_Coalition" title="Art Workers' Coalition">Art Workers' Coalition</a> had their offices above the store.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe" title="Robert Mapplethorpe">Robert Mapplethorpe</a> bought <a href="/wiki/Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith</a> an egg cream there shortly after she moved to New York in 1967.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the late 1960s it was midway between two other iconic venues, the <a href="/wiki/Fillmore_East" title="Fillmore East">Fillmore East</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Electric_Circus_(nightclub)" title="Electric Circus (nightclub)">Electric Circus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-closes_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-closes-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The owner in 1971 was Irving Stein.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That year <i>Village Voice</i> reported "A permanent cluster of junkies using its doorways and newspaper benches as home base hasn't helped business any"<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the store was closed for a time from February 1972 when it ran into financial trouble<sup id="cite_ref-closes_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-closes-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the counter-culture that had helped support it collapsed.<sup id="cite_ref-lives_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lives-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The storefront caught fire that May,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but it reopened that June with new management.<sup id="cite_ref-lives_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lives-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The owner as of 2015 was Ray Patel, who was born in the early 1940s in Gujarat, India. He ran the store with his wife and bought the store in 1986, when he replaced one brick wall with glass. He did no advertising and relied instead on word of mouth.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He learned making egg creams from the previous Italian owner, who in turn learned it from his Jewish predecessor.<sup id="cite_ref-pizza_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pizza-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The store manager Salim said in 2010 that only four people knew the recipe.<sup id="cite_ref-hofstra_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hofstra-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Patel's daughter Parul, a former <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Stanley" title="Morgan Stanley">Morgan Stanley</a> financial advisor, took over the business from her father in 2018 because he was suffering from <a href="/wiki/Parkinson%27s_disease" title="Parkinson's disease">Parkinson's disease</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GemSpaSign.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/GemSpaSign.jpg/300px-GemSpaSign.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/GemSpaSign.jpg/450px-GemSpaSign.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/GemSpaSign.jpg/600px-GemSpaSign.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Gem Spa sign being removed from the storefront on May 17th, 2020.</figcaption></figure> <p>Gem Spa merchandise was introduced for the first time in 2019, and its T-shirt became popular. So much so that <i>Eater</i> magazine called it the "Hottest Look in Streetwear" just a couple of days after Fashion Week ended in September 2019, after it caught the attention of <a href="/wiki/Fashion_influencer" title="Fashion influencer">fashion influencers</a> like former Calvin Klein model Remy Holwick and designer Kyle Brincefield of Studmuffin NYC.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> While efforts to save it were underway, in May 2020, Gem Spa closed permanently, due to lack of business from the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Eater-2020-05-07_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eater-2020-05-07-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After its closure, Gem Spa announced it would continue to operate an online store selling branded merchandise.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gem_Spa&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gem Spa is featured on the back cover of the first album by the seminal <a href="/wiki/Punk_rock" title="Punk rock">punk rockers</a> the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Dolls" title="New York Dolls">New York Dolls</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-trivia_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trivia-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Poets <a href="/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg" title="Allen Ginsberg">Allen Ginsberg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ted_Berrigan" title="Ted Berrigan">Ted Berrigan</a> both mentioned the stand in their works.<sup id="cite_ref-beat_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beat-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Gem_Spa_(Basquiat)" title="Gem Spa (Basquiat)">Gem Spa</a></i> is the name of one of the main works painted by <a href="/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat" title="Jean-Michel Basquiat">Jean-Michel Basquiat</a> in 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gem_Spa&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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