Hardware store on Third Avenue to close after nearly 80 years in business
A 77-year-old hardware store on Third Avenue will retire in the coming weeks, leaving Ridgeites without one of the neighborhood’s oldest businesses.
Ridge Paint Hardware Co. Inc., (9108 Third Avenue) which opened in 1938, will close in the next few weeks. Its current owner, Seymour “Sy” Shepetin, has retired.
“He’s 89; physically he couldn’t do it anymore,” Shepetin’s daughter Millie said.