Court Street Office Supplies To Close After 36 Years, Reports Say

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NY — Court Street Office Supplies, which has been open across the street from Brooklyn Borough Hall for nearly 36 years, will close its doors for good next month, the Brooklyn Paper reported.

Owners of the 44 Court St. store plan to close on Feb. 20 to focus more on their online business, which they will run out of their 11th Street warehouse in Gowanus, the paper reported.

Court Street Office Supplies first opened in 1982 and supplied workers at Borough Hall and the nearby courthouse with pencils, paper, copies and more since.

"There isn’t a businessperson in Brooklyn who doesn’t know our store," owner Jacob Gutman told the Brooklyn Paper. "Even if they don’t know it by name, everyone knows the office-supply store across the street from Borough Hall or the Municipal Building."

Gutman told the paper that since customers switched more to online shopping instead of stopping in their Court Street location — which was in the film "Catch Me If You Can" — they decided to close up storefront next month and focus on their website.

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