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NYC NEWSSTANDS, A VANISHING LANDMARK
URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE RITUAL
PAPERHOWAGE DIGTAL AGE HAS THE DIGITAL AGE CHANGED OUR LIVES? Evolution of Newsstands in New York City The Newsstand, originally a kiosk mainly for the sales of newspaper, used to be an essential element of the city street scape. Especially for the New Yorkers who were living in the fast-growing city, the kiosk was the place to get information and connected to the rest of world. ewsstand, once beloved by New Yorkers, are now in danger of losing their existence. They were contributors for New York City’s growth and provided low-threshold opportunities for vulnerable population.
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Most of the Newsstands owners and employees have been in the business for ages and may have little chance to find another job. Urgent policy change and action are needed from city council to help these small businesses to survive and to perserve this landmark of New York City. In the fall of 2007, the old, ramshackle, idiosyncratic newsstands that long graced our city’s streets began to vanish, replaced by “ticky tacky boxes,” the identical steel and glass street furniture brought to New York by the CEMUSA company of Spain. When their task is completed, they will have installed 330 franchise locations, seizing over 200 once-private businesses from their long-time owners. Plans to replace the city’s newsstands have been in the works for years. It was part of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s quality of life campaign. But it was Mayor Michael Bloomberg who made it happen when he signed the street furniture bill in 2003, aiming, in his own words, “to rationalize the streets of the city, where right now it’s a hodgepodge of unattractive things.”
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1950 1,325 newsstands.
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Newsstands are the kind of New York City landmark you never nev notice. They are around, but like benches and bike stands, you acknow acknowledge them, or their absence, only when seeking one out. Which, at least where newsstands wh days. are concerned, probably doesn’t happen very often these day
1960S Decades-long Decline
little more than 300 newsstands still operate in the city today. Most are in manhattan, plus a smattering in the bronx, brooklyn, and queens, says robert bookman, counsel to the new york city newsstand operators association. At their peak, in 1950, there were 1,325 newsstands. Then, newsstands served as a safety net for vulnerable populations, with the city setting aside small but valuable slices of sidewalk for the blind and disabled veterans (and later all vets) returning from world war ii and the korean war. But by the 1960s newsstands would begin their decades-long decline. In 1979 about 400 newsstands remained, and their numbers hit a historic low — a little more than 280 — in the late 1990s. What remain today are the survivors.
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The numbers prove the newsstand’s narrative is knottier, and a bit less romantic, than simply the decline of print — though that plays a huge part. newsstands sold “1,000 newspapers and now they’re selling 200,” bookman says. “that’s 800 customers not coming to the newsstand.” the people who passed by and picked up the times or the post also grabbed a pack of cigarettes, or gum; now they’re doing neither. a tough regulatory environment, which, bookman says is the primary deterrent to newcomers, and heavy cigarette taxes have also squeezed the industry.
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1979 about 400 newsstands remained, and their numbers late 1990s: a little more than 280
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more than 300 newsstands still operate in the city Most are in Manhattan, plus a smattering in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, says Robert Bookman, counsel to the New York City Newsstand Operators Association.
2023 more than 300 newsstands still operate in the city Most are in Manhattan, plus a smattering in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, says Robert Bookman, counsel to the New York City Newsstand Operators Association.
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STOC K PURC HASE 19:00-21:00 PM 5 : 00-7: 00 AM
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Change in number of clients Newsstand opening hours Vendor stocking time Increase in customer numbers Decrease in customer numbers 歡迎讀者提供信息及反饋， 讀者提供信息及反饋， 請致電：551-998-5390，或發電郵：zx327@cornell.edu
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