From pacifiers to beer bottles, how one Babies R Us was transformed into a Dave & Buster’s
The original architects returned to give an unlikely second life to a shuttered store in Brooklyn.
In the turbulent and fickle world of retail, designing and opening a store is an act of optimism. So it was that the newborn-focused retailer Babies R Us moved into a newly designed store in Brooklyn in 2000. But the economy can take optimism and smash it to pieces. Fewer than 20 years later, when the company closed all of its physical stores, the Brooklyn Babies R Us became a piece of history, emptied and lost to time.