Given the slow time of year, and my aim to post at least a couple of times a week, we’ll make this a part two of a retail update of sorts while I work on something more substantial for an upcoming post.

Here’s some recent turnover on the eastern end of Irving Street:

* Chic Decor and Designs (and party supplies), 1663 Irving St., has taken the space formerly occupied by Marcel Truppa Gallery, which at at some point also served as the office of Rahway Arts District.

If you didn’t see it a few years ago, here’s an “I Am New Jersey” profile of Truppa by The Star-Ledger, which is worth the read.

* Just a couple of doors down, a poster in the window of 1667 Irving St. proclaims that Cake Therapy, custom cake designs, is “coming soon!!!!” If I recall, this space previously was occupied by some type of interior design outfit.