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Losing my store envy

December 16, 2004 By pia

When I first moved to Manhattan we had many independent stores. Now it’s mainly chain stores. (I love the Time Warner mall, though I want to bomb Time Warner–not really but I dream about it.)

We have a Home Depot in Manhattan. It’s a combination Home Depot/Expo store; I shake at the mere thought of it. A Bed Bath & Beyond recently opened in my ‘hood. Haven’t been in it yet because I know that I would buy out the store.

When K Mart first opened my friends and I went to both Manhattan stores often because it had things we had never seen before at home.

I just heard that a Wal Mart is opening in Queens. I’ve never been in one. Fave niece cried when I told her, several years ago, that I had never been in a Target. She thought I lived a deprived life and was the poorest person she had ever met. When I explained that we didn’t have any she didn’t believe me. Then she wanted to take me to one.

I called her to tell her that a Target had opened 20 minutes uptown by subway. She was very happy. So am I. Life is good.

I know many people think that the brilliance of Manhattan is its independent stores. I used to. But life was more difficult and the chains came in anyway. Might as well be ones I can use.

Tomorrow I’m going to Home Depot for a new shower head. Life is better than good.

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I live in the South, not South Florida, a few blocks from the ocean, and two blocks from the main street. It's called Main Street. Amazes me too.

I'm from New York. I mostly lived in the Mid-Upper East Side, and the heart of the Upper West Side. It amazes me when people talk about how scared they were of Times Square in the 1970's and 1980's.

As my mother said: "know the streets, look out and you'll be fine."

What was scary was the invasion of the crack dens into "good buildings in good 'hoods." And the greedy landlords who did everything they could to get good tenants out of buildings.

I'm a Long Island girl, and proud of it now.
Then I hated everything about the suburbs. Yet somehow I lived in a few great Long Island Sound towns after high school.

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