The End of Vox
Thursday, September 9th, 2010
It’s really done.
Debi Ryan writes:
It saddens me to announce on Tuesday, September 8, 2010, Vox Pop shareholders voted to allow Vox Pop Café to close permanently.
There will be a state run sale of the assets auction held at Vox Pop Café, 1022 Cortelyou Road, on September 15th at 11:00 am with a preview and registration starting at 10:00 am. There will be no preview list prior to the allotted preview time set for 10:00 am on premises. Anyone can register to bid at the auction but you must present identification. All sales are final and on a cash only basis.
There will first be a call for a bulk bid, meaning that people can bid one price for the entire contents. That will then be followed by a lot by lot auction, where you can bid on individual items (or groups of items that have been put together by the auctioneer). After the auction, they will add up the lot by lot bids and if they are higher than the bulk bid, the individuals will get the items they won. If, however, the bulk bid is higher than the lot by lot bids in total, the bulk bidder will receive all.
If anyone has personal property in Vox Pop, you must contact Mr. Furlow (718-722-4562) and Mr. Hicks (718-722-2114) and provide them with proof that the item belongs to you personally. Original bills of sale, photos of the item or a consignment agreement will all be very helpful. They will arrange with you a time to pick up your personal property. This must be accomplished any time before the start of the auction on September 15 at 11:00 or your property will be auctioned off.
On behalf of Vox Pop, and from me personally, thank you to this community for the overwhelming support over the past year and one half since it became a community owned space. I do believe that we were successful in helping to build a community and I hope that the work we started finds a way to continue.
ALSO: There’s an open discussion underway on the creation of some kind of community center in the vicinity of Cortelyou Road, possibly the location of the former Vox Pop, which you can join by sending an email to cortelyou-community-center+subscribe [at] googlegroups.com.
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Kate
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Andrew
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Nai
