In 2008 smooth, greyish-silver, aluminium panels would go up over all the storefronts to just square off the building alignment.
Ms. Murray said last week that more than half of all the storefronts shown in the book, published in 2009, were already gone.
You're not going to change all the storefronts that you have in your offline world.
Why pay the rent and pay someone to sit in the store all day?" The storefront businesses, those that have stuck around, have done so because they've moved with the tide.
"There was only one grocery store left, all the storefronts downtown had been abandoned, and our kids were moving away to take jobs in the bigger cities".
It will take a general economic recovery, and especially a rebound in employment, to fill all the empty storefronts.
Of this melting-pot neighborhood near Dodger Stadium, he writes: "By day a walk down the main drag of Sunset Boulevard might require skills in five or more languages to read all of the storefronts.
Are all of the storefronts, restaurants and open spaces that line city streets going to be filled with MacBooks, cappuccinos and Moleskine notebooks?
David Smith, the club owner, found them all a permanent home; the storefront, formerly a barbershop and a 99-cent store, has been leased now for a little over two years.
A typical shop is La Casa de las Maletas (the House of Suitcases), on West 181st Street near Audubon Avenue, a bustling place where cheap luggage of all sorts hangs outside the storefront, covers the sidewalk and is stored in a nearby van.
