Mourning the loss of a classic South Village coffee shop, and its beautiful retro sign from another New York

This photo, which I took back in 2009, shows a perfect New York storefront. For 45 years, this lovely coffee shop existed at 107 Thompson St. in the South Village. In recent years, it was run by the distinguished Porto Rico Roasting Company, which seemed to afford it a certain measure of invulnerability. Folks knew it as Auggie’s, and its historic pedig…