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As a follow-up to their Bay Area brand store, Lamy just announced they were opening up a store in SOHO.

 

It's on: 452 West Broadway
New York, New York 10012

 

Can one of our New York friends post photos and report back to us their impressions? I'm curious to know if the store stocks their whole product line.

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As a follow-up to their Bay Area brand store, Lamy just announced they were opening up a store in SOHO.

 

It's on: 452 West Broadway

New York, New York 10012

 

Can one of our New York friends post photos and report back to us their impressions? I'm curious to know if the store stocks their whole product line.

I stopped by briefly today. They seem to have the entire product line, of course all at full MSRP. I had been meaning to check out the piano black finish on the Studios, which was disappointing and not as nice as the matte black finish. I also tried out the stainless steel 2000, which I found too heavy. Picked up the black Safari special edition, though.

 

I hope this store's being in SoHo somehow facilitates my dream Lamy collaboration with Supreme. :)

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So, I don't know lower Manhattan all that well. Where are they in relation to say, Fountain Pen Hospital (which is half a block from the City Hall subway stop)?

I made the mistake at Christmastime of driving down to FPH from midtown (my husband stayed in the car while I shopped); the traffic on Seventh Avenue and then on Varick Street was a complete nightmare and then we had to fight our way back UPTOWN to get to the entrance to one of the tunnels, because we were then meeting my brother at a diner in Bayonne.

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Best way in or out of NYC for visitors is train. Park your car in NJ and take a train in. Never drive in NYC if you don't have to. That's what ill be doing once I can get an afternoon off and head over to the new Lamy shop.

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Best way in or out of NYC for visitors is train. Park your car in NJ and take a train in. Never drive in NYC if you don't have to. That's what ill be doing once I can get an afternoon off and head over to the new Lamy shop.

 

Yes, that's what I usually do - good advice to all!

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Best way in or out of NYC for visitors is train. Park your car in NJ and take a train in. Never drive in NYC if you don't have to. That's what ill be doing once I can get an afternoon off and head over to the new Lamy shop.

 

Well that doesn't help people who are hitting the city on the way to or from somewhere else. Doing the family thing for holidays involves stops in NYC, Western CT, and SE Massachusetts, with the occasional dinner with my brother in North Jersey. Mostly when I'm hitting FPH, I'm taking the subway from Midtown. One time we drove down the FDR Drive from CT, and my husband dropped me off, then I took the subway uptown to his sister's. Last Christmas, due to timing, we drove there from Midtown (7th Avenue to Varick Street -- a route I do NOT recommend) and he waited in the car while I shopped; then we fought traffic to one of the tunnels to the Jersey side (don't remember if it was easier to get to the Lincoln or Holland Tunnel at that point) to meet my brother at a dinner near where he lives. From there, we got as far as we could after dinner into PA, and made it home the next day.

Taking the subway from Midtown is way easier....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Hi all,

I had visited the store this past friday and wrote up a Yelp review. I've made it a proper post here on FPN. Pictures included:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/337258-lamy-soho/?hl=%2Blamy+%2Bsoho

 

Thanks for the review, very informative! Did you end up getting anything over there? I'm looking forward to getting a picture next to the enormous Al-Star myself when I get up there from Philadelphia. It makes total sense that Lamy's storefront aesthetic would be similar to an Apple store. The Aion that I have feels like it dropped ripe off of a Macbook.

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Thanks for the review, very informative! Did you end up getting anything over there? I'm looking forward to getting a picture next to the enormous Al-Star myself when I get up there from Philadelphia. It makes total sense that Lamy's storefront aesthetic would be similar to an Apple store. The Aion that I have feels like it dropped ripe off of a Macbook.

 

Great observation on the Aion! :-D

 

I snagged a black Safari (with free cartridge), a bottle of blue-black ink, a converter and a 1.1mm nib. They packed my bag with a free copy of their promotional magazine "Specs Vol. 1". Also, when one spends more than $50, they'll give you a free Lamy Screen as shown in the pictures below.

 

The Screen is interesting. Twist the barrel one way, it extends the ballpoint. Twist the other way, it extends a stylus for your device. It's a nice, smooth writer and it's well-built from aluminum but I expected more somehow from the stylus. I have to exert more pressure than I expect in order for it to affect my phone. I might as well just use my finger. So, it seems gimmicky to me.

 

According to their Instagram account, previous promotions from LAMY Soho included free Picos to the first 25 customers (which I would rather have had than the Screen) or free Safaris to the first 25 (which I really would rather have had) on opening day.

 

Also pictured is the box and bottom of the ink bottle. I show them simply because they're interesting and seldom pictured.

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And speaking of gimmicky, you can download the Lamy app to your phone which avails some augmented-reality animations and videos when viewing the Specs magazine. It was kinda cool, but again I was left expecting more. (Well, I am from the MTV generation... ) Here is a before and after of the cover as an example.

 

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After a long time only I found out that there was a Lamy shop in a mall in Kuwait that I know and is famous in Kuwait, it was in Marina mall in Salmiya about 45 minutes by road on heavy traffic(Salmiya is quite congested). After knowing it I asked my Parents if we can go there and they agreed. So we reached there by 12 noon but it was closed at the time, and might open at either 2 or 4 pm, so we went around and we just came at 2 and it was open,yay! But there were a few problems over there. First being that it was not a shop but a kind of booth in the middle of the shops and i noticed that Lamy's range was not a lot. the full range was there. The first pen I tried was the metal Lamy 2000 and I dont know how anybody can call this heavy. when i held it in my hand it had some heft to it but it was not heavy, i felt like i could write for hours even tried it posted, and it had a medium nib which was like heaven to use. But it was 118 kwd(389.82$) and the standard Lamy 2000 was 69kwd(227$) and my range at that time was only the safari. I tried the Aion and loved too but it was 27 kwd(89.20$).

I didnt bother with the Lx,or Al star because it picks up scrathces and dings up quickly (I have a Lamy alstart pacific) and so I just ended up buying a Lamy safari all black wich was 8.5 kwd(28.08$) but this time took a risk and chose the medium nib and love it so much more than the two fines that i have. The other problem was that I asked the person in the shop, like...to try the pen I was calling out the names of the pen like-"I would like to try the Aion" and more, but he didnt even know any of them, Thank God I knew Lamy's full range so I was like "that one or this one" and etc. And on the 45 minutes back home I starting thinking only about one thing........How was the lamy 2000 metal heavy.

Another thing I forgot to mention that I forgot to buy a converter with the pen and he didnt even ask if I wanted one, even bought a bottle but thank god again that it was not my first Lamy safari.

Another thing I wanted to ask was that did Lamy change their Blue ink? Last year when I bough the Lamy Al star I used the Lamy blue cartridge and it was a really nice blue but the next day it almost fades to nothing,but this year I have the cartridge and bottle but it does not fade or change colour. I am confused.

 

So a lesson for all of you would be that before you go to any shop to buy fountain pens please know what you want otherwise he would have made me buy the Lamy 2000 metal.

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Another thing I wanted to ask was that did Lamy change their Blue ink? Last year when I bough the Lamy Al star I used the Lamy blue cartridge and it was a really nice blue but the next day it almost fades to nothing,but this year I have the cartridge and bottle but it does not fade or change colour. I am confused.

 

 

I am currently using Lamy blue in the free cartridge that Lamy Soho provided with my purchase. It comes out of the pen a nice, medium blue and does not fade the next day.

 

If there was a formula change, it seems to be an improvement over your first experience. Unless you prefer an ink that fades to almost nothing...

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Needhelp - it's pretty common to know more about pens than the salesperson. I certainly know more about Lamy than the General Manager at the SF Lamy store, who never worked with pens before he was hired. Also, the salesperson at my local San Diego pen store doesn't know much about pens either.

 

But ... it sounds like you really like the L2K metal ...

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Glad I stumbled across this topic; I'll be checking out the SoHo store next week if I have time. (And I'm sure I'll make time.)

 

Does anyone know if they sell safari nibs there? I'd like to try out an EF since I find the F a bit broad on cheap office paper.

 

Thanks.

Lamy Safari (f), Pilot MR (f), Kaweco Ice Sport (f), Lamy Aion (f), Parker 75 Ciselé (65), Platinum 3776 (m), Lamy 2000 (f), Kaweco AL Sport (f), Montblanc 146 (m)

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I checked out the SoHo store. It was small, but well stocked. The employee was very helpful and seemed knowledgeable. They had Safaris, AL-Stars, LXs, and Joys inked up in all nib sizes to test out. They had good paper to test on, too. Prices were MSRP. If you are in the area, its worth a stop.

Lamy Safari (f), Pilot MR (f), Kaweco Ice Sport (f), Lamy Aion (f), Parker 75 Ciselé (65), Platinum 3776 (m), Lamy 2000 (f), Kaweco AL Sport (f), Montblanc 146 (m)

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Thanks for the info. I'm hoping to have time to get there at Christmastime, either on my way to or my way back from New England (as well as my more or less yearly pilgrimage to Fountain Pen Hospital.

Did they have any of the new Lamy Gemstone inks?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: Just have been doing a little research -- and if necessary, I can take the same subway line from where I'll be in NYC to both places! :bunny01: Or at the very least I can get back from either one easily enough, no matter which place I decide to hit first....

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