Ghost town under Chrysler Building and other things I don’t understand
Nearly every weekday from 2005 to 2019 I walked directly from the subway at Grand Central through the retail space under the Chrysler Building, occasionally stopping at the barber shop, delicatessen, dry cleaner or locksmith. These shops offered the kind of retail experience that, to me, makes New York City superior to places where errands require driving from one strip mall to the next, as I did during a previous job in Parsippany. Then Aby Rosen’s RFR bought the iconic office building on Lexington Avenue in 2019 and promptly cleared out every last retailer. It appeared that he planned to […]
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