On Wednesday, a lease was signed for a storefront at 2113 Amsterdam Avenue, at 165th Street.
"We've never had any complaints," said Maximiliano Santiago, who set up his own water purification business three years ago in a storefront at the edge of an Iztapalapa market.
He was standing outside a storefront at 30 West Twelfth Street.
A year earlier, in 1931, Johnson and Barr and Julien Levy, the art dealer, had organized a show in a storefront at Seventh Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street called "Rejected Architects" — that is, architects excluded from the annual exhibition at the Grand Central Palace of the conservative Architectural League.
Fifteen years ago, when a nonprofit tenants advocacy group called Good Old Lower East Side set up shop in a storefront at 525 East Sixth Street, between Avenues A and B, the area was filled with rubble-strewn lots and derelict tenements.
The retail space, a storefront at the Port Authority Bus Terminal at 41st Street and Eighth Avenue, has been called Blank SL8.
"Ula's Real Estate," reads one of the many signs hanging from a storefront at Greenpoint Avenue and Leonard Street in Brooklyn.
"Maybe he's a psycho," said Ali Jalal, a Palestinian immigrant who sells perfume from a storefront at 272 Canal Street.
Called "This Great Country," it will be staged in a storefront at Pier 17 at South Street Seaport as part of the annual River to River Festival.
Sure, there are hot dogs, fries and lemonade at F&B, a new ice-blue sliver of a storefront at 269 West 23rd Street.
