Any interesting examples of ghost neighborhood businesses, past or current (to rent, hotel)

[MichaelOrear]

Hello,

For the most part due to rent hikes and other factors, when a neighborhood changes the businesses go within a few years.

Although this is not as common anymore, due to the rapid speed at which neighborhoods change these days, in the 1990s and early 200s, it was common for a neighborhood to change, yet a few remaining businesses to somehow stay open for several more years or even a decade or two. In some cases:

A. The business has very few customers coming in and out.

B. The ownner, few employees, and even interior look like a movie set of another era.

Examples:

1. A few six dollar hispanic takeout places in a gentrified part of Chelsea that lasted about six years after 90 percent of the Hispancis left.

2. Some low end Chinese takeout places that lasted a few years after a neighborhood went high end.

3. A taxidremy shop or horse stable in some parts of Brooklyn or Queens that were semi-rural 5 decades ago. The business, despite having only a few odd niche customers stayed around.

4. A fishing supply store in Chelsea for two decades after Chelse became a specialized yuppie neighborhood.

5. A Kosher bakery in a formerly heavy Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx that became Hispanic and had just enough (10) Jewish men to have one token minyan. The Kosher Bakery that had only a dozen customers coming in every two hours lasted a half decade longer.


6. Some very large theatares in Coney Island and a hotel in Coney Island. Use was rare and there was little publicity, but the building stood and was Ocasionally used by a few token customers.

So, has anyone ever seen any interesting cases of businesses that:

A. Appear out of place for the neighborhood.

B. Are opperational, but have a ghost number of customers.

C. Are a relic of a neighborhood that has long since changed?

Thanks