Chinatown Fair was one of a kind, a dark and gritty arcade tucked into a storefront on Mott Street in New York City.
The bottom line: To reach new highs, Wall Street needs a new catalyst that will turn current headwinds into tailwinds.
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Disguised as a nun in a San Francisco convent, she manages to bring new music into the choir, fresh street faces into the pews, and a social-activist spirit into the revitalized congregation.
Birmingham's once-barren Gas Street Basin has already been transformed into a swanky new development.
Wall Street has been moving billions of assets into a relatively new accounting category called "level 3, " a designation that the fair value of those assets, including subprime mortgages and derivatives, couldn't be determined because there was no observable market for them.
Over the last few years Wall Street has poured billions into film financing, creating a glut of new releases competing for a stagnant pool of moviegoers.
And a couple of months ago, he branched into homewares with yet another new store, down the street from his flagship and showroom in New York's TriBeCa neighborhood.
British billionaire Laurence Graff, the man jewelry business insiders call the new Harry Winston, swears this story is true: A woman and her husband walk into Graff's shop on London's swanky New Bond Street and ask to see the stunning diamond-and-ruby necklace in the window.
Eight months into our relationship, he quit his Wall Street job for a lower paying one in a tiny, New England town without ever discussing it with me.
But now, as The New York Times wrote last weekend, the lowly dollar has turned Manhattan department stores into something like a Tijuana street market for Germans.
There's nothing new about turning coal into gas--19th-century street lamps burned "town gas, " a dangerous mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, produced by blasting coal with steam.
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