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New York’s Neighborhoods Owe Retail a Lot  

So many of the city’s changes for the better have been tied to restaurants, shops  

Over the past year I’ve noticed a remarkable increase in the number of mothers pushing baby carriages along Third Avenue in Murray Hill. (On Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, I see more fathers.) Anyway, in the mid-1970s, the only things getting pushed in Murray Hill were drugs and hookers. Ten years ago there were actually meatpackers in the Meatpacking District. I won’t even mention Harlem or Times Square. I can go on and on. Neighborhoods throughout the entire city have been reconditioned, at least in part, by the vast amount of residential and commercial development, both large and small, that has taken place over the last decade. From my perspective, I believe that the retail, entertainment and restaurant sectors were prime catalysts for much of this growth and change.  

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