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You know that such a figure is easily verified by Google, right??
I'm not even going to continue with you 'cause you can't even argue from basic facts...you just want to argue for some reason.
Google only searches for content on the internet, not verify its veracity. Furthermore, statistically, there are roughly 70-80 billionaires that call NYC their home. That doesn’t support your claim that half the billionaires in the U.S. have abodes here in NYC.
Manhattan has no middle class families anymore. You have public housing poors, wealthy upper middle class families and yuppies and their shopping habits are changing the face of Manhattan retail.
Also, want to add tourists. They are also a critical part of the city’s economy. If tourism goes down, watch out. Even more stores will be out of business.
Well, I can tell you that tourists will have NO INTEREST in walking by empty storefronts!
They will go elsewhere.
Well, I can tell you that tourists will have NO INTEREST in walking by empty storefronts!
They will go elsewhere.
Tourists come here for the sights (Statue of Liberty, etc.) -- the really well-off ones who take a plane to be outfitted at a designer boutique the way we hop on the subway are non-plussed by vacant storefronts.
I want to add another reason: bank branches. For the past decade and a half, banks have gone on an expansion strategy. Besides competing for more of the retail space inventory, they drive up the rents. Landlords and building residents also like them better because they only open during working hours, they are generally clean, not noisy and do not attract vermin.
There are lots of hits in Google you can verify but of course you just want to deny, deny, deny.
I don’t have to prove your claim. You have the burden of proof. We are still waiting on proof that half of all American billionaires have an abode in NYC.
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Our laws are such that they can own property here without it being their domicile of record.
So in other words, you have no way of proving your claim that you are so sure about. Okay, got it.
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I noted that it wasn't an unreasonable assumption but honestly, whatever. Continue missing the forest for the trees....
So you come out making a bold statement and now we have to take it based on an assumption?
I also think that Americans are becoming a lot more of a nation of shut-ins. Americans are decreasingly interested in hanging out at shops, cafes, restaurants, and socializing with other humans in the community. People would rather hug their iPads than hang out at a cafe for three hours talking about Al Franken or whatever.
Aside from banks, pharmacies and junk stores, coffee shops/cafes are the only other thing that has opened in my neighborhood. We have our share of empty storefronts/rotating businesses as well.
Tourists come here for the sights (Statue of Liberty, etc.) -- the really well-off ones who take a plane to be outfitted at a designer boutique the way we hop on the subway are non-plussed by vacant storefronts.
Tourists come for the overall NYC experience, of which tourists attractions are just one part of. That’s why you see tourists all over the streets of Manhattan, not just at Battery Park waiting for the SOL ferry or only around the ESB.
If the experience is disappointing, then word gets out and tourism will go down.
Tourists come here for the sights (Statue of Liberty, etc.) -- the really well-off ones who take a plane to be outfitted at a designer boutique the way we hop on the subway are non-plussed by vacant storefronts.
Only a few come to shop at Bergdorf's. The grand majority want to go to the corner bagel shop, Union Sq market, the pizza joint, the corner deli, candle store, the hot dog joint, the apothecary,
the unique retailers that make NYC NYC. Those are the ones that are disappearing.
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