Bob and Judi’s Coolectibles is closing?

What?

That antique store with its funky furniture, old photographs, salt and pepper shakers and  vintage odds and ends, has been on Fifth Avenue since before it was Fifth Avenue.

I mean, they’ve been on the street for, like, 15 years. That’s before Al Di La, Eidolan, Scaredy Kat and Blue Ribbon. It’s been there since before the gentrification of Fifth Avenue.

They were also on the first Park Slope 100:

BOB AND JUDI, owners of Bob and Judi’s Coolectibles, because of their unswerving dedication to Fifth Avenue.

Judi was the founder of the Fifth Avenue Merchants Association and is, with Irene LoRe, the co-president of the Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District. Because of her efforts, the Avenue is the thriving metropolis it is today.

She told Park Slope Patch: “I’d have to say, the Barclays Center has changed the neighborhood. It’s a lot of development and it’s now not the Brooklyn that we came here for.”

She and her hubby are off to California. After fifteen years on Fifth Avenue they are ready for something new. Seems to me there should be a plaque in their honor because they are two people who made a difference to this community.

They’re closing up shop on July 31. We at OTBKB wish them well.