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New York City’s Higher-End Retail Deserts, and How to Fill Them

Walking through the area near Brooklyn’s Windsor Terrace/Kensington border, one is confronted by blocks filled with high-rise residential buildings, many built before World War II, some constructed ju

New York City’s Higher-End Retail Deserts, and How to Fill Them
Photo: Commercial Observer

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Walking through the area near Brooklyn’s Windsor Terrace/Kensington border, one is confronted by blocks filled with high-rise residential buildings, many built before World War II, some constructed just after.

Throughout the main Ocean Parkway thoroughfare and onto many of the connecting cross streets, retail is either scarce or, like some of the apartment buildings themselves, […]

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