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Time Out New York / Issue 628 : Oct 11–17, 2007

Sights & Blights

Storefronts: Blights

How many do you see in a day? Enough to know that they make up a big chunk of the city’s aesthetic landscape. Forget inner beauty: Long live the shops with a pretty face—and fie on those garish others!

1 Dunkin’ Donuts
2 Chain banks
3 Irish pubs
4 Duane Reade
5 Cell-phone stores
Blights 6–10

You’ve got two kinds: the brightly lit megachains (which look like souped-up RadioShacks. Classy!) and makeshift indie branches, with bad fluorescent lighting and three random chargers pinned to the wall. We miss phone booths, graffiti and all.

View all of our storefront picks (at least one location) on a Google map.
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