Reports have speculated that the barges could be floating data centers, traveling Google Glass stores or showrooms with party decks.
Ms. Jacobs's old home recently sold for more than $3 million, and the ground floor harbors a boutique glass store.
Melissa Bushell, left, who has been serving her bite-size cupcakes from the window of a SoHo coffee shop, has opened her own sleek little glass store.
THE little glass store opening this weekend on the corner of Hester and Orchard Streets has the unusual name Project No. 8b.
The victim, Erika Posselt, was abducted on June 19 from an auto glass store she owns, then freed last weekend in Ciudad Juárez.
The five-pound crystal lobster, designed by Taf Lebel Schaefer, is $3,700 at the Steuben Glass store at 667 Madison Avenue (61st Street), (800) 783-8236 or steuben.com.
APOGEE ENTERPRISES, Minneapolis, a maker of replacement windshields and glass products, plans to close 40 of its auto glass stores and cut more than 50 jobs to reduce costs by at least $10 million a year.
But a store is more than glass store-fronts and giant rooms filled with gadgetry.
The collection will be available through Net-A-Porter and the Google Glass store starting on June 23.
In Rio Dell, across the Eel River from Scotia, glass store fronts along the main street were shattered and numerous buildings slipped into a culvert along Monument Road.
Then there was the time his fly broke at the Golden Globes just as he walked by Pierce Brosnan, and the time he cut his hand badly at the glass store while pretending to be a competent working-class handyman type.
