Stung by this brutal recession, businesses that have kept their doors open are still wary about adding workers.

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Small businesses kept their doors open by hook or by crook.

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She lives a few blocks from the theater and kept its doors open not only when Superstorm Sandy hit last year but also during the city's 2005 subway strike, picking up the actors and crew in her car.

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