Hi folks,
The nearest I've ever been to NY / Manhattan / Brooklyn is the international
airport in NJ (name escapes memory for the moment - no - here it is La
Guardia !) in 1990. So I have no first hand experience of Long Island (if
that's
the name of the NY / Manhattan / Brooklyn general area).
Those photos - and I looked at them all - were mostly downright depressing.
Dingy, grubby street / locality, graffiti not removed ... ... horrible signage
...
I hope the place is not all like that. Signifies to me there must be better
places to do business. I agree that it's the people inside that matter most,
and you can't always tell a book by its cover.
And the internet is a good way to do business now.
I must say however, that here, where our best shops once had wide front
windows and good window displays, mostly they had to blank that off in the
last couple of years due to losing stock from ram-raids (thieves stealing
heavy 4x4 vehicles, ramming them through the front, a quick 90 second grab,
and scarper in a second stolen vehicle). So our shop fronts now look different
from what they used to.
Brian
>
>
> I found these two links on Photo.net and I'm gonna post them without much
> comment.
>
> http://www.panix.com/~donwiss/pictures/ManhattanStores/
>
> http://www.panix.com/~donwiss/pictures/BrooklynStores/
>
> The links take you to photos of some of the--in many cases--well-advertised
> NYC
> photo stores. Form your own judgments.
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