South Street Seaport

uThe South Street Seaport The South Street Seaport is one of New York’s historic areas located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and is a designated historic district. The original intent of the Seaport was the preservation of the block buildings known as Schermerhorn Row on the southwest side of Fulton Street, which were threatened with future development. The entire Seaport neighborhood is meant to transport the visitor’s back in time to New York’s mid-19th century, to demonstrate what life in the commercial maritime trade like was like. This is now being threatened and may never be the same because of damage the recent storm Hurricane Sandy caused. In most parts of lower Manhattan, few signs remain of damaging flood waters and impacting winds from Sandy that nearly washed away this part of the city back in October. In some of the hard hit areas the power is back on and people are back at their desks working. Some may feel lower Manhattan is back to business but store owners and residents of the neighborhood may beg to differ. Historic cobblestone streets and old mercantile building remain empty still nearly five months after the storm. One local said, “Everybody knows about the Rockaways Staten Island, and Jersey, but I don’t think most people know about the disaster that took place here.” Until you visit it for yourself you won’t know how bad it really is. In total, around 85 percent of businesses in the neighborhood remain closed, and their windows still have the stickers from the inspectors who decided the space was unsafe. Fewer than a dozen stores, bars and restaurants out of hundreds have. The different kind of jobs you can identify in this area varies from chains of stores including Ann Taylor, J. Crew, Guess, the Body Shop and Brookstone. None of these stores has reopened because of Sandy, and there’s currently no indication of when or if they will. This lead to the answer of my first personal question, were any jobs lost because of