A. and N. sent word (and photos) this morning that now the Starbucks on West and Vesey has closed permanently. “Also incredible staff!” A. said.

The location at Greenwich and Franklin also just closed last week.

This one opened in January 2024, just before the Greenwich location. Back then — a year and a half ago — the company was gunning for more outlets: the goal was to add 17,000 locations by 2030 to reach 55,000 globally. (The company was founded in 1971 in Seattle, and by the time it went public in 1992, it had 165 stores. By 1996 there were a 1000 stores, including some in Japan Now there are about 36,000 stores globally, and about 350 in the city. The first one here, on 87th and Broadway, opened in 1994.)

But as of this month, the  company announced that it is closing 1 percent of stores. In the past year we have lost two other Starbucks: the one inside 32 Avenue of the Americas at Sixth and Walker, and the one on Broadway and Reade.

If you need your fix, there is still West Broadway and Leonard; Chambers and West Broadway; Lafayette and Worth; Church and Murray. And there are another 18 or so in Fidi, the Civic Center and Battery Park City (and a couple with restricted access, like Pace and Citibank).