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NYC tailor defies state order: ‘I’m opening my doors come hell or high water’
NY Post ^ | 26 April 20 | Doree Lewak

Posted on 04/26/2020 2:48:12 PM PDT by Bruiser 10

One defiant NYC business owner — who’s been deemed “non-essential” during the pandemic — has a message to New York: “I’m opening my doors come hell or high water.”

Eliot Rabin, whose Upper East Side boutique, Peter Elliot, is known for high-end men’s and boys apparel, refuses to follow a state order closing retail business not considered essential. He insists that his $85 pocket squares and $15,000 suits are part of the fabric of New York City: “Why is a liquor store essential and I’m not?” Rabin told The Post.

He admitted that many of the customers who can afford his wares have fled the city for vacation homes, but he’s here to provide “emotional essential support” for the ones still in town. The retailer is also offering them what he jokingly calls “internal vaccinations: Chivas Regal, Kentucky bourbon — have a nip and you’ll feel better.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andrewcuomo; billdeblasio; newyork; newyorkcity
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To: Flick Lives

Bill Gannon pummelled the mother into submission. While i told the kid to shut up. Funny how kids don’t understand how police states work.


21 posted on 04/26/2020 3:22:23 PM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: Jane Long

“Diversity” breeds perversity.


22 posted on 04/26/2020 3:23:40 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SamAdams76

They look like ticket-takers/ coat checkers at an uptown theater.
Matinee shift.


23 posted on 04/26/2020 3:23:50 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lightman

Yes...it’s pretty d@rn perverse that she bilked millions from the last task force she headed up, for her hubby.

No one cared then, I gues they won’t, now.

:(


24 posted on 04/26/2020 3:26:23 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: PeteB570

There is a lot of that going around..people “claiming” they are not getting a loan.
But our benevolent leaders would never pull a fast one on We The People...? Especially the democrats..they are for “the little guy”
We’ve been duped. The biggest hoax ever perpetuated on the American people.


25 posted on 04/26/2020 3:26:45 PM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: Bruiser 10

I wish him well but he sells suits for $15,000 but serves Chivas Regal and Kentucky Bourbon in a PAPER CUP?


26 posted on 04/26/2020 3:27:42 PM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: Leep

Thank you for your intelligent observation of a flea on the back of an elephant and claiming it’s on a pool table.


27 posted on 04/26/2020 3:29:18 PM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Bruiser 10

The guv and de mare will end up at the wrong end of the parade. If it’s behind the elephants, the can be useful if somebody hands them shovels. Then they can show de mare of San Francisco how to clean up that city as well.


28 posted on 04/26/2020 3:30:15 PM PDT by Bernard ("I don't know if that's true:" Schiff said.)
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To: libertylover
serves Chivas Regal and Kentucky Bourbon in a PAPER CUP?

Lack of judgement.

Lack of decency.

Lack of class.

Heresy.

29 posted on 04/26/2020 3:30:40 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Bruiser 10

Typical New Yorker on Facebook: “That’s my tailor!”

Lord help us.

If the contact tracers get this guy, I hope he has to wear nice comfy orange trousers for the rest of his life.


30 posted on 04/26/2020 3:31:50 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Bruiser 10

Put some bottled water on the counter. You are now selling an essential item. Open your doors for business.


31 posted on 04/26/2020 3:32:07 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Follow your Inner Trump)
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To: Bruiser 10

“Why is a liquor store essential and I’m not?” Rabin told The Post.

In a nutshell


32 posted on 04/26/2020 3:37:47 PM PDT by SoCalCynic
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To: SamAdams76

I for one am glad it changed. I dislike in general when fashion is elevated over practicality.


33 posted on 04/26/2020 3:42:27 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Bruiser 10

I love it!.....First two small business owners I’ve read about defying these lockdowns are a Christian woman from Texas with the last name Luther, and a Jewish guy from New York with the last name Rabin, which is derived from the word Rabbi...Maybe God is trying to tell us something?


34 posted on 04/26/2020 3:52:07 PM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: PeteB570

Thank you for your literal, and non-humorous, interpretation of what was obviously intended to be a humorously sarcastic post.. intended to make a point.


35 posted on 04/26/2020 4:01:42 PM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: SamAdams76; Bruce Campbells Chin

I recently watched the 1968 Tigers v. Cardinals World Series.

Men in the stands wore white shirts and ties. The women wore dresses and long sleeve gloves.

It is called pride in oneself and country.


36 posted on 04/26/2020 4:03:55 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Bruiser 10

you live in a Police State so watch out


37 posted on 04/26/2020 4:15:14 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: NoKoolAidforMe
"...and the damn asshat mayor of NYC telling people to report others who are not wearing masks or social distancing."

Yes officer, I see this douchebag who is not wearing a mask or social distancing...he's on TV every day.

38 posted on 04/26/2020 4:34:54 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Bruiser 10

Liquor stores sedate the masses (Soviets knew this) and raise tax revenue.


39 posted on 04/26/2020 4:49:13 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The fish wrap media promoted Obama'sBenghazi lies in 2012.)
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To: Bruiser 10
For God sake... let the man open his business.

He has every right to SURVIVE his family and his BUSINESS.

40 posted on 04/26/2020 4:51:31 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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