Persnickety Toys Closing After 19 Years in N.Adams

A longtime fixture of the downtown North Adams business community is closing its doors.

iBerkshires.com  reports Persnickety Toys, which has operated for 19 years at its 13 Eagle St. location, will close within four to six weeks, owner Monique Suters said this week.

Suters said her decision to close came after struggling to stay afloat with online competition as well as a smaller market since the closure of North Adams Regional Hospital in 2014 and the recent death of her son in August.

Suters opened Persnickety Toys in 2001 by leasing the space; in 2004, she purchased the building with plans to renovate the space above the storefronts into a living space for her family. That never happened, she said, because she instead opened a second location on North Street in Pittsfield in 2010 that was operated by her brother, Mike Moore. That store closed after the end of the 2015 holiday season.

As for what she will do next, Suters said she is taking it one step at a time until the building is sold, but she hopes to travel and spend time with family.