Great article in The Brooklyn Rail:
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/02/local/ruminations-on-duane-reade
“A recent photography book “Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York” gives us a counterpoint. It’s a book chock full of the diverse and expressive facades of stores from all over the boroughs—and the ones from the 1970s seem as anachronistic as the ones from the 1930s.”