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ARMONK, N.Y. Retired Armonk IBM employee, turned antique-hunter, John Sansevere, travels from Nyack to Armonk periodically to visit Treasures Thrift Shop on the corner of Maple Avenue and Bedford Road.
Ill tell you its the best place in Westchester County, Sansevere said. The hunt is whats most intriguing; I want to find something thats worth $50,000 that I found for 50 cents. Its the luck of the draw.
Sansevere opened his own antique store in Nyack called Decorative Arts and Antiques at the Franklin Antique Center.
Mondays and Tuesdays Im off so I usually go looking for stuff for my store, Sansevere said. Ive been coming here for at least 10 years and I love the courtesy of the ladies and the price of the items.
The ladies Sansevere spoke of are the women who work at Treasures from September through June. Some have been with the store for about 30 years.
Peggy Carey, Chum Bogart, Vicki Mueller, and Nan Bircham were on duty Tuesday Sept. 6 for the store's reopening (it closes every summer from July through August).
Were all friends and its a nice charitable thing and it feels like were doing good things for good people, hopefully, Carey said.
The stores profits are donated directly to St. Stephens Episcopal Church to expand its outreach programs including support of Tanzanian AIDS orphans; the Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry; Friends of Karen; Canines for Combat Veterans; Fessenden House; the Rural and Migrant Ministry; The Bridge Fund of Westchester; AHOME; the Peter A. Bard Acolyte Scholarship Fund; Taconic DDSO; and the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
Items that are not sold are donated to many organizations including the Boys and Girls Club and the V.A.
When browsing the shelves at Treasures, its easy to wonder where the merchandise comes from.
People have garage sales and they give us what they couldnt sell, Bogart said. Some of the big estates have sales and we get some really nice things. We dont take appliances because we dont have the space for them but we do take small furniture like tables and chairs and things like that.
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