In a message dated 1/17/00 8:05:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> human customs seemed to be more old-fashioned than any other American city
of my experience.
The Essex Street Market Business Improvement District (BID), a Lower East
Side Manhattan neighborhood, in line w/ the historic tourism fashion, has a
strategy to retain the *historic* aspects of retail haggling that the area is
known for with it in mind that purchasing the old fashioned way will attract
tourists.
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