As Record Store Day Returns, Where Can Classical Buyers Shop?

Published: April 17, 2014, 6 p.m.

Last week, J&R unceremoniously closed its store in Lower Manhattan after 43 years in\xa0business. The iconic electronics and music retailer is vowing to reopen \u201ctotally reimagined and redeveloped.\u201d But for now at least, it has gone the way of Tower Records, HMV, Virgin Megastore, Sam Goody and other brick-and-mortar shops that used to make New York City a music superstore haven.