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EV Grieve rounds up a bunch of East Village mom-and-pop shops that have closed recently. City Copies, the Genesis Unisex barber shop, and Village Fabrics join Beauty Crisis and Fab 208 in the ranks of independent stores that have been priced out of their original homes. [EV Grieve]