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Actually, I came looking for history of one of the oldest and most influential stores in NYC, only to have it start in 2008? Where's the history of its founding and growth into a flagship? You can at least add info from the history on the company website as a start. I see references to history on the
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Huh? Should this be "the brothers OPENED their East Side ..." ? Maybe not, given that a later sentence reads "At the time the East Side was a working-class neighborhood with shantytowns, garbage dumps, and stockyards. Most of their customers and competitors were in the Upper West Side, and at that
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