Archive: March, 2012

POSTED: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 10:25 AM

Even Mitch Cohen, owner of Cohen & Co. hardware store, sounded like he couldn't believe he was saying it when he told CP a couple weeks ago that he'd come around to the idea — proposed by the South Street Headhouse District via a grant from the city — of turning his block into a pedestrian plaza. A scaled-down version, which would close only one lane of traffic rather than the whole block, had won him over; the same could not be said for the owners of J-Brite, the dry cleaner nearby. Sally Jeon, whose family owns J-Brite, told CP she was terrified the change in traffic patterns would decimate her business.

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