In other cities, chimneys lost bricks and light damage occurred.
If we continue to lose brick-and-mortar bookstores, it will be a true loss; and if, as a result, sales of the classics fall, that will be a major cultural blow.
Azmal Hussain, a petitioner who said he would have lost his Brick Lane businesses if they had lost the case, dismissed concerns that the judgment would be seen as racist.
As someone who lost his bricks-and-mortar robot store on West 81st Street two years ago, Mr. Greenbaum says he regrets the decline of that communal feel that smaller merchants bring to a neighborhood.
"If you lose your brick phone, and you call us, the insurer will replace it with the same model or as close to the model as possible," said Brenda Raney, a spokeswoman for Verizon Wireless.
We may have come to accept the fact we're losing our brick and mortar record stores, but if these promoters are forced into extinction as well, we will also be losing the true spirit of independent music.
If we lose more brick-and-mortar bookstores, the article noted, the classics in particular will be hard hit.
Meanwhile, for every online job the web has created, several others have been lost in the bricks-and-mortar world.
"If houses go up, access to important archaeology and further understanding of iron age culture will be lost indefinitely under bricks and concrete," said Neil Phillips of Hands Off Old Oswestry Hillfort (Hoooh).
Last year one of them was struck with a brick and lost an eye.
