Craft & Community: Lichen Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary with 'Our Floors Are Uneven'

It's a sunny early spring day in Ridgewood, Queens, the kind that offers a fleeting glimmer of cool breezes and balmy weather ahead, but has yet to wrest itself from winter's chilling clutches. Inside Lichen's store on Woodward Avenue, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue emanates from a nine-foot speaker tower created by architectural designer Deborah Garcia, while co-founders Jared Blake and Ed Be sip on a home-brewed yerba mate and a pitch-black iced coffee, respectively. All systems are go for a conver...