The NASDAQ, which has a broadcast studio and "storefront" in Times Square, is a dealer market and is completely computerized.
These are two divergent snapshots of a remarkably refashioned commercial strip that 20 years ago was marred by drug dealers and dilapidated storefronts in a neighborhood torn apart by racial and religious violence.
The dispute is yet another page in one of those classic New York tales, in which the sale of a Manhattan skyscraper can suddenly shift the relationships between tenants and landlords, sometimes emptying retail storefronts in a way that quickly alters the character of a city block.
Snake lands on a World Trade Center rooftop and whizzes past Chock Full o' Nuts storefronts in a Checker cab.
He also photographed shop signs and storefronts for himself in a style reminiscent of the great Walker Evans and more abstract patterns in steel, wood and fabric that he spotted on his walks in Los Angeles and New York.
Not much seems unusual about Judian and Kadeian Brown's storefront in a tidy plaza off Church Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, a neighborhood where every block seems to have its own African hair-braiding salon.
The advantage, of course, is that the business no longer has to deal with the overhead of running a brick-and-mortar storefront – in Glamsquad's case, a salon.
8 30 p.m. 3) CLAMS AND CRABS Tucked into a small storefront in a neighborhood of tidy lawns and German beer gardens, Cabezon (5200 Northeast Sacramento Street; 503-284-6617; cabezonrestherant.com) has the unaffected feel of a small-town restaurant.
Conversely, if you want to sell merchandise online, you can create a retailer account on Rasba and set up your online storefront in a minimal number of steps.
And above a storefront in Irvington, Ernest Anthony, a 52-year-old former superviser of a food flavoring company who reads his Bible when he is depressed, waits amid the tolling of the Christmas church bells for the call that will give him a new kidney.
