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Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 13:07
Subject: [BP] ?Curved revolving
doors?
Went to downtown Brooklyn today to the old
Abraham & Straus complex yesterday, a varying but high quality mix of
Victorian cast iron, romanesque brownstone and iron spot brick and European
expressionist art deco, all fighting for air on the tinny hubbub of the cheap
stores ("JIMMY JAZZZ!!") on the Fulton Mall, the struggling Great Society-type
conversion of Fulton Street into a pedestrian mall.
Notwithstanding the original vision, Fulton
is still a strip of low-income/no-income stores, most of which have plastered
all sorts of crap over perfectly competent 19th and early 20th century retail
buildings, but that crime is hardly unique to the Borough of
Churches.