What New Providence Businesses Do You Miss?

New Providence-Berkeley Heights, NJ - Businesses open and close, but the impression they leave on a community can last long after they board up their doors.

Has your favorite venue vanished from New Providence-Berkeley Heights? If you’re missing an old hardware store, bakery or mom-and-pop shop, you’re in good company.

We asked Patch Readers in New Providence-Berkeley Heights, what extinct local business they’d bring back from the dead. Here’s a list of one-time favorites:

• “I wish I had “my” town back with all the Mom & Pop stores instead of all the franchise business’ that have gone in so my grandsons would grow up appreciating a “small town” atmosphere.“
• “ The Book Tree, Toys that Teach, RSVP...too many to list. ”
• “ A&P in the Springfield Shopping Center in New Providence NJ!”
• “Crestview Drugs”
• “Mother’s Cake Box”
• “Friendly’s”
• “Country Cobbler”

Is your choice business not on the list? Add it in the comments below or on our New Providence-Berkeley Heights Patch Facebook page.