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North Brooklyn has lost storefronts for a decade. The bill to stop it has almost no one behind it

Greenpoint and Williamsburg have lost storefronts for a decade. A bill to curb commercial vacancies finally exists, and almost no one has signed on.

A shuttered storefront with a closed metal gate on a Brooklyn commercial street

North Brooklyn has lost storefronts for a decade. The bill to stop it has almost no one behind it

Greenpoint and Williamsburg have lost storefronts for a decade. A bill to curb commercial vacancies finally exists, and almost no one has signed on.

North Brooklyn has lost storefronts for a decade. The bill to stop it has almost no one behind it
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Walk Greenpoint or Williamsburg and you can read the last ten years in the empty storefronts: the sweet shop priced out, the corner business that did not survive its lease renewal. There is finally a bill to stop the bleeding. Almost nobody has signed onto it.

State Senator Julia Salazar and Assembly Member Emily Gallagher, who represent the neighborhoods, introduced the Small Business Survival Act , which would cap commercial rent increases through a…

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