In an even darker burrow at 36 West 17th Street, Barry Supply Company (242-5200) houses a mother lode of discontinued hardware for windows, doors, and closets, including sweep latches, awning roto-operators, shower-door rollers, and the like, stock that Barry Wein’s family has been laying down for nearly 85 years. Though it’s mostly new, not secondhand, it serves much the same purpose as salvage. Bring in some broken crank for a window made decades ago, and Barry will root around in the back for a while and most likely return with a match. -

Picking Up the Pieces – New York as it was — Stanford White moldings, gargoyles, and all — has been disassembled and stored in the city’s salvage shops. Architect Hugh Hardy rediscovers it. – New York Magazine

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