Laytner's Linen Closing Upper West Side Shop After 57 Years

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A linen and home store that has been in the Upper West Side for more than five decades plans to close their doors after the shop kept losing money, the West Side Rag reported.

Laytner's Linen & Home, which opened at 2276 Broadway 57 years ago, will shutter their Upper West Side location, but still keep their Upper East Side location.

"Business was not good," owner Alan Laytner, whose parents founded the business, told the West Side Rag. "We ran the store for the last few years seeing if it would flip. I feel badly that I couldn’t turn it around."

Laytner's opened in 1961 selling just linens out of their Upper West Side storefront, but eventually expanded to furniture and more after customers "kept trying to buy the bed displays," New York Magazine reported.

It branched out into an Upper East Side location at 237 E. 86th St. then crossed the East River for a Park Slope location in 2008. That location later shuttered in 2015, Bklyner reported.

Despite closing their Upper West Side shop, Laytner promised that residents in the neighborhood will get free shipping for life from their online web store, the West Side Rag reported.

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