More upper east side empty storefronts
Started by NYCROBOT
almost 16 years ago
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I took a walk on this beautiful spring day expecting to find some creation emerging from the destructive ruins I reported on last fall and winter. I found the opposite. Not only are there essentially no new stores opened in the places that went out of business (save 1 or two), but there are many more empty store fronts! Are people seeing that in their neck of the woods, or is this limited to 2nd and 3rd avenues on the UES?
Actually there seem to be a lot of places opening in Gramercy Park and Murray Hill.
You may have heard about the 2nd ave subway. Would you open a biz there?
if the rents were cheap enough.... a tarot card reading place would open up... the key is that with LLs paying ridiculous prices for the assets, they "need" to charge X, businesses cannot risk having a fixed cost of X in this economy.. so no new store... 2nd ave sub...that's right cause the 8 hrs of union work KILLS all business.. if anything a bar should do quite well....
most of the newly empty storefronts I saw were on 3rd avenue, nowhere near the subway construction mess. Also, plenty of eyesores on first avenue as well.
I thought consumers were supposed to be starting to spend again, no?
you take it to a different, and extremely annoying level. find a new hobby
wow, pot, meet kettle...
> you take it to a different, and extremely annoying level.
By "extremely annoying level", do you mean, like, factual?
Yes, I get how you'd find actual facts annoying.