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It seems like there are less people and traffic with each passing year. I've spoken to small business owners mainly in the Sheepshead Bay and Gravesend area who said they've never seen anything like this. From pizza parlors, bodegas, 99¢ stores, produce stores... they've all been hit pretty hard and it doesn't seem to get better. A store clerk described it as a "ghost town." A local real estate agent thinks the combination of being broke and poor with delayed warming of temperatures is causing people to be depressed so they're staying home more. A mail woman who delivers mails in our area said she's seeing a lot more houses being put up for sale.
That's interesting--so the streets and shops are getting less busy? What corridors are we talking? Does it have anything to do with less Russian money coming in?
It seems like there are less people and traffic with each passing year. I've spoken to small business owners mainly in the Sheepshead Bay and Gravesend area who said they've never seen anything like this. From pizza parlors, bodegas, 99¢ stores, produce stores... they've all been hit pretty hard and it doesn't seem to get better. A store clerk described it as a "ghost town." A local real estate agent thinks the combination of being broke and poor with delayed warming of temperatures is causing people to be depressed so they're staying home more. A mail woman who delivers mails in our area said she's seeing a lot more houses being put up for sale.
What gives??
I tell people in manhattan all the time I live in a partial ghost town named Midwood lol
Only because the area is ghost feeling once the Jewish folks end their day and week!
It’s always quiet in south Brooklyn. Most of the people are an older and family demographic that doesn’t go out much. The older you get, the less outdoor activities you can do. Then they get old and can’t take care of a house anymore so they sell and move to a co op
Chinatown areas are really the only busy corridors
It’s always quiet in south Brooklyn. Most of the people are an older and family demographic that doesn’t go out much. The older you get, the less outdoor activities you can do. Then they get old and can’t take care of a house anymore so they sell and move to a co op
Chinatown areas are really the only busy corridors
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