Question: J&R had a retail location across from what seat of New York City government?
Context: The Gotham Gazette is an online publication of the Citizens Union Foundation of the City of New York, a government watchdog group focusing on issues confronting New York City.  Its purpose is fourfold: it reports daily on New York City news, it provides a digest of news items relevant to New York City, it researches and recommends policies considered by the New York City Government, and it provides reference tools for students of the civic activities of New York.  Its reference resources range from policy papers to indexes of proposed and passed legislation of the New York City Council.  The "Gotham Gazette" was founded in 1999. 421-a tax abatement is a property tax abatement in the state of New York that is given to real estate developers for building new multi-family residential housing buildings.  The program gets its name from being from section 421-a in the New York Real Property Tax Law.  The 421-a program began in 1971, and has since included provisions in it to mandate the creation of affordable housing units in order to qualify for the program.  Under the original program, areas in which developers qualified for the tax break included all of Manhattan and portions of the rest of New York City.  The original program lapsed in January 2016 after disagreements between the state government and the New York City government, but a deal was made in November 2016 between unions, developers, and Governor Andrew Cuomo to bring it back, pending the approval of the New York State Legislature.  In the April 2017 budget negotiations, the program was officially renewed, with the official new program name being "Affordable New York".  The program is administered by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD).  Under the program, the city government stands to lose billions of dollars in foregone property tax revenue, making this program controversial. Monsters Inside Me is an American television documentary series about infectious diseases.  It includes first-person interviews with people and medical professionals telling their personal stories about contracting rare diseases.  Interviews with contributors are shot on location across North America.  Recreations are mostly filmed in hospitals and homes in New York City. Carole Post is the Deputy Chief Operating Officer of USF Health at the University of South Florida.  She was formerly the Executive Vice President at New York Law School and serves as the school's Chief Operating Officer and first Chief Strategy Officer.  Before her tenure at New York Law School, she served as the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) and New York City's Chief Information Officer (CIO).  She was appointed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on December 30, 2009 and assumed the official position on January 19, 2010.  She is the first woman to have held this office at the City of New York.  Post modernized New York City government practices and infrastructure to advance open government and improve services to the public. New York City Hall, the seat of New York City government, is located at the center of City Hall Park in the Civic Center area of Lower Manhattan, between Broadway, Park Row, and Chambers Street.  The building is the oldest city hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions, such as the office of the Mayor of New York City and the chambers of the New York City Council.  While the Mayor's Office is in the building, the staff of thirteen municipal agencies under mayoral control are located in the nearby Manhattan Municipal Building, one of the largest government buildings in the world. The government of New York City, headquartered at New York City Hall in Lower Manhattan, is organized under the New York City Charter and provides for a "strong" mayor-council system.  The mayor is elected to a four-year term and is responsible for the administration of city government.  The New York City Council is a unicameral body consisting of 51 members, each elected from a geographic district, normally for four-year terms.  All elected officials are limited to a two consecutive-term limit.  The court system consists of two city courts and three state courts. J&R was an online electronics and music retailer, based in New York City.  It had a well-known retail location on Park Row, across from New York City Hall for 43 years. Levain Bakery is a retail bakery that opened in 1995 and is located at 167 West 74th Street, on the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.  In June 2000 a second retail location was opened for seasonal business at 354 Montauk Highway, Wainscott, in the Hamptons area of eastern Long Island and Harlem, NY "Monsters Inside Me" is an American television documentary series about infectious diseases.  It includes first-person interviews with people and medical professionals telling their personal stories about contracting rare diseases.  Interviews with contributors are shot on location across North America.  Recreations are mostly filmed in hospitals and homes in New York City. Thomas P. Ryan Jr. (December 3, 1928 – March 14, 2003) was the 63rd Mayor of Rochester, New York.  Ryan began his tenure as Mayor under the old council/city manager system of government, in which the mayor was selected from among members of City Council to be that body's presiding officer.  He first was voted to the post by his Council peers after the 1973 election which returned a Democratic majority to office.  For his first decade as Mayor, a city manager appointed by City Council and accountable to that body handled the day to day administrative duties of government.  This system had been in place since the late 1920s as a result of government reforms championed by the late industrial magnate George Eastman.  However Ryan, who had exercised greater de facto influence over city policy than most of his predecessors under this system and functioned in many respects like a chief executive in policy matters, championed a change in the city charter to abolish the post of city manager and return to a "strong mayor" system like that in other major cities of New York State, in which the mayor was directly elected, directly accountable to voters and served as chief executive of city government.  The charter change was approved by city voters and Ryan served as a "strong mayor" for two terms from 1985 through 1993 before retiring from public life.  In addition to the revision in city government structure which began during his terms of office and continues in force today, Ryan became known for helping lead significant downtown redevelopment, and operating government on a fiscally conservative basis.
Answer: New York City Hall