{"id":10801,"date":"2017-07-18T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/07\/18\/nycs-radio-row-survives-sort-of-in-the-bronx\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:08:21","slug":"nycs-radio-row-survives-sort-of-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/07\/18\/nycs-radio-row-survives-sort-of-in-the-bronx\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC’s Radio Row Survives (sort of) in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thanks to our friend (and official lexicographer) Steve Silverman KB3SII for alerting us to this important bit of radio news from the Big Apple. It seems that a part of old Radio Row was saved and moved — first to Brooklyn and now to the Bronx. <\/i><\/span><\/b> I got a kick out of some of the comments in the New York Times article about the store: The insurance company determined that the contents of the store were “non-pilferable.” And one young audio enthusiast was quoted as saying that old American tubes “sound better” than Chinese tubes. I guess they have more presence. Or brightness. And less feathering. Or something.<\/i><\/span><\/b>

<\/i><\/span><\/b> Here is the 2011 NYT article: <\/i><\/span><\/b>
http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/20\/nyregion\/leeds-radio-is-a-haven-for-lovers-of-all-things-analog.html<\/i><\/a> <\/span><\/b>

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Radio Row survives in a storefront in the Bronx, by appointment only. Leeds Radio was started in 1923 and survives because an enterprising customer bought it from the 72 year old owner.<\/b><\/div>\n

But this is where you can shop any time for stuff that should be in your junk box:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/LeedsRadio<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n

Yikes, what is the world coming to?<\/b><\/b><\/i><\/u><\/sub><\/sup><\/strike><\/div>\n

I promise to keep any information about what you actually buy on that site a secret!<\/p>\n

73<\/b><\/div>\n

Steve KB3SII … .. ..<\/b><\/div>\n

PS When I was 11 (and WN1ZPT) , my parents visited NYC and gave me $10 and sent me alone on the subway to the real Radio Row. I was in heaven for a few hours! Got good stuff too.<\/b>
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Thanks to our friend (and official lexicographer) Steve Silverman KB3SII for alerting us to this important bit of radio news from the Big Apple. It seems that a part of old Radio Row was saved and moved — first to Brooklyn and now to the Bronx. I got a kick out of some of the … Continue reading “NYC’s Radio Row Survives (sort of) in the Bronx”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,100,38,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-city","category-old-radio","category-parts-suppliers","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10803,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions\/10803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}