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News Flash: New York City Flooded with Chain Stores
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John Del Signore
Published Jul 31, 2008
Modified Jul 31, 2008
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The Center for Urban Future has compiled what they say is the first-ever ranking of national retailers that have the most stores in New York City. Fittingly called “Attack of the Chains,” the ranking includes data on more than 160 retailers operating in the city. (The recently announced Starbucks closings will reduce the coffee retailer's presence in New York to a scant 235 locations – unless the passionate protests of one Bay Ridge man stems the tide.)
No surprises here; the Mallification of New York is proceeding apace, on a road paved with Mom and Pop skulls. 32 retailers have 50 or more stores throughout the city, and 91 retailers have more than 10 outlets here. Yet despite the fact that the city’s small businesses are being rapidly replaced with chain stores you can find in any depressing strip mall across America, there still isn’t a single Dairy Queen in the five boroughs. And that burns.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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