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Main Street NYC: Smith Street, Brooklyn
WNYC's Lisa Chow took a walk down Smith Street in Brooklyn, between Atlantic Avenue and Bergen Street, and checked in with some of the folks who work and live there to find out how things are faring at...
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Main Street NYC: 161st Street, The Bronx
In the Bronx at 161 st Street, just in the shadow of the new Yankee Stadium, urban planners and developers have begun the process of converting this commercial strip into a global marketplace. A...
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Main Street NYC: The Bowery, Manhattan
WNYC's Brigid Bergin takes us to a five-block stretch of the Bowery, from Houston to Delancey streets. The street is still home some century-old institutions like the Bowery Mission and specialized...
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Main Street NYC: The Bowery, Manhattan - April Update
East Village History Project co-founder Rob HollanderWNYC's Main Street Project is tracking streets across the city and in New Jersey. Last month, we gave you the first snapshot of the Bowery --...
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Main Street NYC: Flushing
Most New Yorkers know they can take the IRT 7 train to get to the Mets ballpark and the U.S. Open, but they’re less familiar with a booming neighborhood just one Subway stop after Willets Point. Main...
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Main Street NYC: Brooklyn Industries on Smith Street
The last time I reported on Smith Street, home to many boutiques and restaurants and squeezed between Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, it was January. It was cold. And store managers...
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The Main Streets project is spending a year looking closely at six blocks around the region. Karen Frillmann, Brigid Bergin, and Elaine Rivera discuss the goals of the project, what they've learned so...
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Main Street NYC: Victory Boulevard, Staten Island
by Aswini AnburajanVictory Boulevard is like a lot of American Main Streets. It was once a thriving downtown area before the development of suburbs drew the middle class community away from urban...
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Main Street NYC: Grove Street, Jersey City
People who live in downtown Jersey City often refer to it as New York’s unofficial sixth borough. It’s just as close if not closer to Manhattan as the so-called outer boroughs -- five to seven minutes...
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Main Street NYC: 161 Street Revisited
Manuel Mercedes was confident that his store would withstand an ailing economy and the new stadium. However, now he's not so sure. Mercedes says he wants to sell the store but with proposed new...
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There are 127 Shopping Days Before Christmas
Christmas shopping is probably the last thing on your mind right now, unless you are a buyer who stopped by The New York International Gift Fair, where store owners met their wholesale suppliers this...
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Return to Main Street: First Stop, Jersey City
This week WNYC returns to our Main Street NYC series, visiting a block in each of New York City's boroughs (and one in New Jersey) to see how the economic downturn is playing out at the street level....
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Return to Main Street: Victory Boulevard in Staten Island
This week WNYC returns to Victory Boulevard in Staten Island looking for signs of economic recovery.Cindy Rodriguez has this feature: Business owners on Victory Boulevard in Staten Island have...
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Return to Main Street: 161st Street
Photos by Ailsa ChangThe Yankees will play their first World Series in their new stadium this week . In the third installment of our Main Street series, WNYC returns to the shopkeepers on 161st Street...
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Return to Main Street: The Bowery
Last Spring our Main Street NYC series traveled along the Bowery checking in on the health of local businesses and institutions. We visited the Bowery Mission, a decades-old pizza supply shop, and a...
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Main Street NYC
Over the past year, WNYC reporters have made repeated visits to six area neighborhoods:the Bowery in Manhattan,161st St. in the Bronx, Smith St. in Brooklyn, Main St. in Flushing, Victory Blvd.in...
View ArticleMain Street NYC: Lessons from the Downturn
There are more than 220,000 small businesses just in New York City-- that’s 20,000 more than five years ago. These are businesses that employ fewer than 50 people each, but overall they provide almost...
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