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Businesses Brace for Summer Streets
by Kathleen Horan
NEW YORK, NY August 09, 2008 —Businesses along the route of the Summer Streets are preparing themselves for the unexpected tomorrow. That's when the city will close several streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park to cars but open them to bikes and skateboards, and any other kind of alternative transportation.
Many businesses like restaurants and boutiques are expecting a boom in business. But Meineke Car Center owner Joe Napolitano is upset because Saturdays are his busiest day and he'll have to close:
NAPOLITANO: You could lose a lot of clientele because people get disgusted and say im only off on a Saturday and i cant come - and its three saturdays in a row - it's disgusting because Bloomberg - they should have thought of something more accommodating to us.
REPORTER: The event is modeled on events from other cites around the world including Bogota, Colombia and Paris.
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