Issue 55 · June 05, 2024
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Grab a seat around the campfire, it's story time…
Many years ago (2022), we were scrambling to find our first ever pop-up location. This was over 30 pop-up activations ago, and if we're being 100 emoji, we had no idea what we were doing. But through some great friends, we found an amazing space at the former home of Whalebone Magazine at 328 Bleecker Street. Our first ever NYC Marathon pop-up was a special mix of chaos and magic. Rossi heat-pressing skeleton logos on product for hours before racing on Sunday (dnf). Tim racing after working 3 consecutive 12 hour shifts at the store (might as well of dnf'd). Truly a weekend the squad reminisces over fondly.
Fast forward to February of this year and Whalebone announced they were putting the space up for grabs. We immediately jumped on it. The chance to have our first major flagship in a space whose hallowed rooms and sketchy basement stairwell we had graced just a few months after releasing our first performance collection was an opportunity not to be missed. Before we even chatted with the landlord, we sprinted over (true story) to our friends at Rhythm Zero and asked if they'd be down to open their second location with us in this space. It was an immediate yes (post Vespa ride over to see it). And thus, the The Bandit Running Room was hatched.
This Saturday, we couldn't be more excited to invite you into our new home. The Noble Street store in Greenpoint (which isn't going anywhere), walked so Bleecker could run.
This is a special West Village Edition of the B-mail. We've got a behind the design of the store, favorite neighborhood picks from the co-founder of Infatuation, 5 dreams with Rhythm Zero, 10 things inside, and our exclusive Bleecker Street Collection. See you Saturday.
Ps. The apricot cornetto is still divine. Dare we say, more divine than ever.
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Close your eyes. Come with me. You're in the Bandit store of your dreams. There's collector-level vintage studio monitors, more product, even more new product, an off-menu item at Rhythm Zero, runner support systems™, meticulously curated vintage furniture and artwork... The vibes are oozing in every direction.
COME INSIDE
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From the vault, we've resurrected and refreshed a couple signature elements from one of our favorite capsules to date (NYCM '23) for a new flagship exclusive product offering. The capsule features our custom drawn old english NY logo on a variety of hat, tee, and hoodie colorways. Sweatshorts come as sweatpants. Scissor sold separately.
VIEW CAPSULE
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Bandit's Lead Designer happens to also be a trained architect who finished top of her class at UVA. Yeah, we don't know how we got her to work here either. Helluva recruiting operation we have going on here. Anywho, we had her dust off that old diploma to lead the design of the flagship store and here divulges her inspiration, favorite details, biggest challenges and more...
READ ABOUT IT
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Ivana and Alex, the masterminds behind Rhythm Zero (the café inside our new store) took a solid 4 minute break from preparing for Saturday's grand opening to tell us what their 5 dreams are. We hope you get that motorcycle trip, Alex. You deserve it. Just after Ivana goes to Japan first.
REM CYCLES
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Tapping in with Andrew Steinthal, who is one of the most tapped individuals in NYC himself, to chat about the best restaurants, cultural hotspots and places to people-watch in our new second home in the West Village. None of these spots were on our bingo card. Lose some, win most.
TOP PICKS
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Come celebrate the grand opening of our new West Village flagship location, The Running Room, this Saturday with a 5K through the neighborhood. There's a few people signed up already (just shy of 700—new high score) and we're going to have the coffee, bagels, and music flowing like you wouldn't believe. See you there.
RSVP HEREThe two best slice shops in the world surround our Bleecker street store? Jamie XX (finally) announces new album. Our Rhythm Zero friends are featured in this article about great wall art. Spotify is raising its prices for premium users. 'Anticipatory architecture' is a beautiful thing with this modern home in Australia. The 8th person to DM us on IG "Running Room" wins a free item from the NY NY capsule.The airline status that's so elite, even it's fliers don't know how they got it. World Athletics to test multiple new event formats in track & field.
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