In Sunday’s New York Times Metropolitan Section, Ginia Bellafante’s Big City column has the title “The Empty Storefront Crisis and the End of the American Dream”. She begins by telling the story of Sam I-Rumi, proprietor of Pet’s Emporium on Montague Street (photo, by C. Scales), who immigrated to New York in 1980 at the […]
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New York Times Notes Transformation of Montague Street
By Claude Scales on June 16, 2019 12:04 am in 11201, Brooklyn Heights, Commercial Real Estate, Immigration, Shopping
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