bikedudes, i assure you; Emey is still around.. !. he, or his namesake, (or his ghost) is currently the proprietor of a shop on east sixth street in da EV. the Pile is relocated and smaller, but still there. his ancient cast iron truing stand is still there. the two Frejus' are there too.. i've touched them and felt their cold steel, and it was not ghostly.
Andrei Padlowski currently in Glen Ridge, NJ yet often in New York, NY
ps.: the shop Barry is referring to is called 'Continuum' and is also a good candidate for mysterious EV shop
On Jan 28, 2008 7:48 AM, James Swan <jswan@optonline.net> wrote:
> I didn't read the article either and I don't know if they were taking
> about Emey's. I just wanted to report that Emey's, or at least Emey has been
> gone for several years now. I think that someone else might be operating a
> bike shop at that location now, but the hay-stack of vintage iron has been
> dispersed to the four winds.
> Emey's was the original meeting place for the Brooklyn Velodrome Vintage
> Wheelman. Lead by the Omnipotent Despot, John Pergolizzi, we used to climb
> over the afore mentioned pile of vintage bikes and huddle in Emey's phone
> booth sized back room that was illuminated by a single bare light bulb
> hanging from a wire. Crammed in there, sitting on miscellaneous old boxes,
> we would tell "tales of the big ring" while sharing bottles of Chianti that
> we opened with the aid of a Campagnolo cork screw. After a couple hours of
> that we would pass the hat to pay our tribute to Emey and stagger off to
> John's Pizzeria... Last I heard Emey was on the lamb. Word was that the Feds
> were after him.