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The Cake Shop needs your help

For a variety of reasons, I tend to dislike pleas for crowd-sourced help for the arts. I’m not against the method of funding all together, but its become a lazy and indulgent means in many cases.
This is not one of those cases.

As the New York Times reports, the Cake Shop has fallen on hard times after a whirlwind combination of fines, back taxes and additional security expenses. $58,000 by July 26 with another $20,000 to the city for the fines at a later date as well.

I’m writing this because I love Cake Shop. I don’t visit New York City all that often, but when I do, I usually spend at least a few hours just hanging out among the records and baked goods. Probably not the best use of time, granted, but I love it anyway. Its cake, coffee, beer, records, free internet and the occasional show. If anything, I want to steal the idea and start my own version in another city. I want this place to exist on principle. Knowing that it does is a comfort anytime I head up 95N past Baltimore.



You can help The Cake Shop out through their site at Pledge Music.

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