I miss Nat Sherman, but I don't get to Manhattan these days. The Barclay Rex store that was up the street was rather small by comparison, but I think it may have moved, and now it has a lounge, I see from the post above.
Nat Sherman had a big walk-in humidor and a wide inventory of pipes. Their lead sales associate Cliff Gold, CRT, attended me and sold me a good bulk supply of their 536 English blend with burley, and i settled into a rocking chair outside the humidor, close enough to the lounge areas with sofas to people watch, and lit up my Jerry Perry bent billiard from Colfax, North Carolina, and had a most pleasant hour. It was on East 42nd Street and had a huge clock in a gold frame above the door as a landmark.
Now Iwan Ries on Wabash Avenue near the elevated railroad in downtown Chicago is the national temple of pipe smoking.