The second-floor restaurant, which can be rented for private parties at night, is unexpectedly luminous and airy, a relief from the crowded shop below.
This being Russia, a certain amount of hard-arsed haggling took place, and a deal was eventually struck for Anapka to be rented for the season at a rate of 20,000 roubles (about £430).
While the police in Garfield began sorting out who had shot Ms. Gotkin, the authorities said that Mr. Popadich drove into Manhattan and checked into the St . Marks Hotel in the East Village, where rooms can be rented for two hours at a time.
Skis can be rented for a reasonable price at most ski hills and, in some cases, at sporting goods stores.
Fregene is by no means a big town, but it is best explored with a bicycle, which can be rented for 11 euros (or $14, at $1.28 to the euro) a day from Motociclo Batella (Viale Nettuno, 171; 39-06-665-64-281), just a few blocks southwest of the city center.
Films can be rented for a 24-hour period at a cost of $2.99, on average.
Last week, it ran full-page newspaper ads offering $99 monthly leases for office copiers that it had been renting for at least $150.
The unit was rented for 10 years at a fixed market rate, he said, and Ms. Franklin received a discount for the improvements she made, amortized over 20 years.
