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The Center for an Urban Future's 13th  annual survey of NYC's national retailers finds the largest overall decline in the number o...

[ The same image we use every year ] The number of chain stores overall in NYC declined by 3.7 percent over last year, marking the larges...

ICYMI ( I did! ): The Center for an Urban Future released its 11th annual ranking of national retailers in New York City late last year ....

The Center for an Urban Future released its 10th annual State of the Chains report in late December... here are some cut-n-paste highligh...

[ EVG file photo ] Crain's today examines the increased presence of chain restaurants in NYC. As they report, since 2008, the num...

[ The same image and caption that we use every year ] The Center for an Urban Future has released its ninth annual State of the Chains r...

[ The same image we use every year, along with the same caption ] Via the EVG inbox... The Center for an Urban Future has published the...

A Sleepy's opened back in December at 111 Third Ave. near East 14th St. At first glance, it's really not exciting retail news. O...

[ The same image we use every year ] Via the EVG inbox yesterday... The Center for an Urban Future published the seventh edition of its ...

Jeremiah Moss of Vanishing New York has an op-ed in the Daily News today titled "De Blasio, unchain the city now." An excerpt fo...

From the EVG inbox yesterday … The Center for an Urban Future [has] published the sixth edition of its annual “State of the Chains” study...

From the EVG inbox… via the East Village Community Coalition (EVCC) ... Formula Retail Community Workshop The Neighborhood Preservation...

From the EV Grieve inbox... cut-n-paste journalism! Woot! The Center for an Urban Future today published its fifth annual study ranking t...

On second , second thought. Earlier this week, the Seward Park co-op board agreed (for the time being) not to lease space to a 7-Eleven and...

Now with working links! On our post about 7-Eleven earlier this morning , a reader left a link to a new petition ... Per the petition:...

So, you remember that computer repair shop-plasma TV installers-DVD rental place on First Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street? Y...

From the Post today: Manhattan's retail rent rollback is causing Wal-Mart to give the city another look . The giant discount chain has ...

You probably saw the news last Friday that the two Virgin Megastores in New York (Union Square, Times Square) will close in the coming mont...

Maybe! Patrick Hedlund has the story in his Mixed Use column this week in The Villager. Best Buy's name has also been floated, he rep...