When Jongmin Park and his wife Soye moved from Battery Park City to a condo at 90 William Street three years ago, the conversion of the Financial District into a 24-hour retail and residential neighborhood was just beginning.
When they first arrived, all the restaurants and stores closed on the weekends and the neighborhood turned Read More
Gary Gross’ family has operated a pawnshop near Penn Station for more than a century. Though he was not around during the “real depression” in the 1920s, S&G Gross Co. has emerged more or less unscathed from multiple economic downturns in Mr. Gross’ lifetime.
The bursting of the tech bubble in the beginning of Read More
Arnold Scarborough, a 45-year-old Army veteran and street vendor, emerged from the lobby of the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building and proudly displayed a photograph from inside. “I voted for Barack Obama and I took a picture of it,” he said.
Though Mr. Scarborough said he has voted in every presidential race Read More
Photographer John Conn, one of the few Barack Obama-free vendors in Union Square these days, is looking forward to the end of the election. Over the past three months dozens of artistically inclined young thirty-somethings, seasoned street merchants and newly minted idealists have been selling election gear on 17th Street between Broadway and Fourth Avenue, Read More
Rocky Twyman, a Seventh Day Adventist who rallied hundreds of Americans to pray for lower fuel prices at gas stations across the country last spring and summer, camped in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Halloween for the inauguration of his latest movement: "Pray Down the Greed on Wall Street."
"This is Read More
Symptoms of the credit crunch in the Financial District became obvious over the summer, when commercial and residential vacancy rates rose and a slew of new luxury condos spilled onto the market as rentals. Now, signs offering occupants incentives like no brokers’ fees and one month’s free rent are as plentiful on the sidewalks as Read More
On first glance, all of the five-story townhouses lining West 11th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues blend together, lending the block the same charming and unaffordable air of any other in Greenwich Village.
The sharp, three-story bay windows at No. 18 quickly pierce the illusion, jutting four feet past the facades of the Read More
One of the inadvertent beneficiaries of the Wall Street meltdown may be the city’s mental health professionals. Many of them said their practices have either grown or stayed stable over the past year, as the economy worsened and the conditions that spawned Wall Street’s meltdown coalesced.
They believe, grimly enough, their business will only Read More
Last week was probably not the most fortuitous time to open a new store in Manhattan. Sex shop Passion opened anyway Sept. 30 on West 14th Street.
After a slow first night, traffic had picked up by the end of the third day of business.
"Stocks may be down, but cocks are up," Tyrone, Read More
Artist Geoffrey Raymond did not have much luck soliciting signatures on his portrait of ousted AIG Chairman Hank Greenberg when he displayed it outside the firm’s Wall Street headquarters last week.
When Mr. Raymond first unfurled "The Annotated Spitzer" outside of the New York Stock Exchange 15 minutes after the governor resigned on Read More
