The Big Cup coffee shop?where we hear the free wi-fi makes Curbed look especially radiant?is closing, as you can tell from the above. The scourge of rising rents gets the blame, 'natch, but here's something novel: the employees want to take over the shop and make it their own caffeinated Xanadu. And they need your help! Your legal and/or fiscal help! Their plea, and an exterior shot of the store, after the jump.
· Big Cup [NYTimes]