We’ve been waiting more than a year for something to go in to the storefront 7th Avenue Books vacated last summer.

Seventh Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Streets was a veritable wasteland for much of the past year with four empty storefronts. It seemed to herald the beginning of the recession; it looked like Seventh Avenue was about to embark on tough times.

But one by one, all the vacant spaces have been filled. First came Barrio, the hit nouveau Mexican restaurant painted pink with a lovely outdoor patio that seems to be packed most of the time. In my opinion, the success of Barrio got these other storefronts moving again.

Next came Carmen’s Exclusives for Children, which carries old-fashioned styles, including smock dresses, for kids up to age five. The jury is still out on this one.

Then the Second Street Cafe got rented. Finally. Kids Rx, a West Village pharmacy and health store for kids, specializing in natural products, is going to renovate that space.

As now, I’m told by a workman in that space that is being speedily renovated, a  woman’s clothing store is going in to the space that used to have miles of used books. It wasn’t the Strand, but it was one hell of a used and review copies bookstore.

So now I’m wondering which women’s clothing store is going into that space. In that Park Slope way, I’m guessing it’s a shop that’s already exists elsewhere in the Slope. Diana Lane? Goldy and Mac? Kiwi? One of those Fifth Avenue boutiques?

Patience I say. the sign will be up soon enough.