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As we say goodbye to the 2010s, we look wistfully back on businesses that were once important gathering places for generations of Upper West Siders.

After 27 years on 81st Street and Columbus Avenue, Maxilla & Mandible closed its doors for good on Sunday night, stuffing brown paper into the display window where skulls and fossils used to sit and slapping a tiny sign on the front saying simply "Gone Digging."

Maxilla & Mandible, the fossil shop at 451 Columbus Avenue where thousands of New York kids gawked at the bones and fearsome skulls of dinosaurs, bobcats and crocodiles will close this month