And then you can come up and you see. And this is what made me think of it, the parts of Brooklyn, Brownsville, you go to, Pitkin Avenue, Sutter Avenue, they're growing. The number of empty stores [in Brooklyn] has declined. Everything. So that Brooklyn's inn, I think, is benefiting everybody. And do the neighborhoods change? Sure. When I represented Canarsie, southern shore of Brooklyn, it was mainly an Irish, Italian, Jewish neighborhood. (01:51–01:54)
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Asserts that there are fewer empty stores in Brooklyn, indicating economic growth.
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