MAKE | 269 Electronics – Canal street, NYC

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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2008/03/01 @ 11:39 pm
Category Electronics, General

Tucked away inside a perfume, watch luggage and fake iPod store on Canal street is “269 Electronics” – if you’re in NYC and need electronic tools at “ok” prices and selection 269 is one of the few places. They also have kits (mostly velleman kits) as well as some rare parts. Today the quest was for some NT42/44s and while they’re not that hard to find they had them, score. More photos here – Link.

Related:
Argo electronics – Surplus electronics in NYC – Link.

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BY Phillip Torrone

Editor at large - Make magazine. Creative director - Adafruit Industries, contributing editor - Popular Science. Previously: Founded - Hack-a-Day, how-to editor - Engadget, Director of product development - Fallon Worldwide, Technology Director - Braincraft.

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7 Responses to 269 Electronics – Canal street, NYC

samuel gamlin on March 1st, 2008 at 4:49 pm said:

hey hey im in nyc next week and the dollar is at like 2 dollars per GBP everythings half price in arco and 269

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samuel gamlin on March 1st, 2008 at 4:50 pm said:

hey hey im in nyc next week and the dollar is at like 2 dollars per GBP everythings half price in arco and 269

might get my self one of those jumbo’s lol

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Collin Cunningham on March 2nd, 2008 at 9:19 am said:

The owner @ 269 was very helpful to me when I was getting into electronics. He also told me about how that whole store was all electronics back in the 80′s!
I suggested he try stocking some Âµcontroller devices/kits.

If you go,be sure to check out the glass display cases, I’ve found some good stuff in there.

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Aud1073cH on March 3rd, 2008 at 9:41 am said:

That’s my kind of candy store! – I’m still looking for a place like this in the Seattle area.

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setae on March 3rd, 2008 at 2:04 pm said:

anywhere else in NYC (and environs) that sells similar things?
beside the shack of course..

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Mercury por la santeria on August 8th, 2008 at 12:47 am said:

I don’t know his name, but he’s very helpful and knowledgeable (at least more than myself). This place used to be about twice as big, but he was pushed back further in about 2005(?). So shop there if you want him to stick around.

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- nhattruong on October 15th, 2009 at 7:56 pm said:
  
  oh I agree
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  http://muabanperfume.com/main
  
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