Are there still music stores on W 48th Street?

Or are they all gone?

Instruments or sheet music? I walk through the area often and see musical instrument stores (in the 40s between Times Square and 6th Avenue), but I think the sheet music places (like Patelson's) are all gone, at least as brick+mortar stores. (The Juilliard store does sell sheet music.)

Instruments.

All gone. I lived in the W50s during the late 90s and loved going over to Manny's (much more than Sam Ash across the street). So cool seeing all the signed photos from famous musicians - incredible history.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/nyregion/01mannys.html

The City has been wiped clean of nearly every commercial establishment over 50 years old. In the process, what made it the most vibrant and diverse city on earth was replaced by the same stores found everywhere else.

I used to have a vanilla attitude towards Bloomberg, welcoming his competence over Giuliani's cronyism and refusal to act on critical problems, not the least of them the City's ability to respond to a mass catsarophe. Then my brother sent me this blog, cataloguing every longstanding business pushed by Bloomberg's hyper-gentrification program.

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/?m=0

I only lived in the City for 5 years, but grew up trekking in for shows, records, and culture unavailable in Westchester. Though I can't claim long time City residency, I despise Bloomberg nonetheless for turning what was a city unmatched anywhere into a sterile linear shopping mall and condo development for the ultra rich.

Sorry for the tangential venting, but it's related to the subject at hand.

Sam Ash and Guitar Center around. One is on 34th or 42nd. Both are on Route 22 across from each other.

dk50b said:
The City has been wiped clean of nearly every commercial establishment over 50 years old. In the process, what made it the most vibrant and diverse city on earth was replaced by the same stores found everywhere else.
I used to have a vanilla attitude towards Bloomberg, welcoming his competence over Giuliani's cronyism and refusal to act on critical problems, not the least of them the City's ability to respond to a mass catsarophe. Then my brother sent me this blog, cataloguing every longstanding business pushed by Bloomberg's hyper-gentrification program.
http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/?m=1
I only lived in the City for 5 years, but grew up trekking in for shows, records, and culture unavailable in Westchester. Though I can't claim long time City residency, I despise Bloomberg nonetheless for turning what was a city unmatched anywhere into a sterile linear shopping mall and condo development for the ultra rich.
Sorry for the tangential venting, but it's related to the subject at hand.

True. And if you are poor forget it.

I remember Colony up by that area. Sheet music and overpriced Broadway soundtrack CDs, along with a serious collection of memorabilia. Long gone.

dk50b said:
The City has been wiped clean of nearly every commercial establishment over 50 years old. In the process, what made it the most vibrant and diverse city on earth was replaced by the same stores found everywhere else.
I used to have a vanilla attitude towards Bloomberg, welcoming his competence over Giuliani's cronyism and refusal to act on critical problems, not the least of them the City's ability to respond to a mass catsarophe. Then my brother sent me this blog, cataloguing every longstanding business pushed by Bloomberg's hyper-gentrification program.
http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/?m=1
I only lived in the City for 5 years, but grew up trekking in for shows, records, and culture unavailable in Westchester. Though I can't claim long time City residency, I despise Bloomberg nonetheless for turning what was a city unmatched anywhere into a sterile linear shopping mall and condo development for the ultra rich.
Sorry for the tangential venting, but it's related to the subject at hand.

Wow, that blog is incredible. I lived in NYC in the late 90s and I know that people that were there before me would say that it was already ruined by then. Still, I have happy memories of Sunday brunch with friends in the East Village followed by hitting Sounds on St. Mark's to score cheap CDs and wandering into St. Mark's Bookstore. All gone now. But at least there's a Chipotle.