There are grocers, banks, bars and restaurants sprinkled in the surrounding blocks, and boutiques along Fabric Row, about six blocks away.
The banks, barred by the Canadian government from merging among themselves, have spent about 13 billion Canadian dollars since 1996 on acquisitions in the United States.
This neighborhood of Polish families and young people priced out of Williamsburg is short on the banks, bars and bistros that cluster around Bedford Avenue.
For a no-frills survey of the landscape, there is the free AroundMe app, which shows nearby banks, bars, gas stations, theaters and an assortment of other attractions without reviews.
It hasn't in Brooklyn since the Baltimore mafia was steaming crabs over at the Right Bank bar in Williamsburg.
The mythical Left Bank bar Le Piano Vache (5th arr) is always packed with students, its walls plastered with thousands of yellowing posters.
He drives a Subaru, a humble ride for a man who earned millions last year arranging shotgun weddings for the busted firms of Wall Street, and standing next to Barbara in the darkness, Rodge Cohen, a titan of the banking bar, struggled with his automated key, initially unable to — woop woop woop — release the lock.
When we wake up we go out for drinks at a noisy Left Bank bar and then enjoy an intimate dinner at a candlelit neighborhood restaurant.
In April, the central bank barred "non-resident" (mainly Ukrainian) banks from operating in Crimea.
It's outrageous.' When looking exclusively at the big four banks - Bar clays, LloydsTSB, HSBC and NatWest - Egg's study showed none of them offer a branch-based easy access account that would even pay a basic rate taxpayer a real return.
Good thing he banked those bar mitzvah savings bonds.
