Our block - 56 between 5 and 6 is New Yorkishly funny. Here you can find the most bizzare collection of businesses. We have fancy steakhouses (2), hotel, trendy offices (of Etro, Testoni and other designers), crappy delis, dirty dry cleaners, 3 florists, chinese restaurants (2), korean, sushi (2), salons (seems like 20, for all budgets), Argentinian Consulate, subway, and others (such as wedding dresses, contractors, pr agency etc).. and of course the huge line to Abercrombie and Fitch ... that takes a third of a northern part of a block.
A couple of months ago, before Valentine's Day I had an idea to put something outside on both side of our entrance door to attract clients - like 2 pots with spruces or whatever. I did not really care much as long as it's nice and catchy...
So we put 2 red pots with spruces. 2 weeks later another florist put a big pot with collection of flowers, another week later korean restaurant put a palm tree next to their door. Today our neighboring steakhouse put 2 enormous planters with elaborate topiary.
Probably soon we all will be broke, by putting more and more money into outside objects, trying to outperform each other... hope not.... but we have a very decorative block so far....
Oh, did I mention that each consecutive business put their plant/pot/tree twice bigger than the previous one.... and of course today we went even bigger... we put 10 feet tall curly willow with tulips.... and i think.... not big enough, and now searching for something more presentable.... and of course bigger.....
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