Welcome to the South Street Tweeport! Downtown Tourist Trap Aims for Cool, Cool Summer
On a recent summer Saturday afternoon, the weather is perfect but the South Street Seaport’s so-called Tourist Alley is devoid of tourists. Nearly eight months after Sandy ransacked the area, its tent-pole businesses—Abercrombie & Fitch, Ann Taylor, Brookstone—remain closed.
Over at Pier 17, at the widely loathed third-floor food court, Arthur Treacher’s and Subway do a brisk business. A thousand little Statues of Liberty glimmer beneath fluorescent lighting.
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Brooklyn Flea, Chris Curry, Jonathan Butler, Karen Bellantoni, Lockhart Steele, Pier 17, RKF, Robert LaValva, Sandy, Smorgasbar, South Street Seaport, Howard Hughes Corporation
