New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-21
THE RETAIL TRADE IN FULTON STREET.
now TIE BRIDGE HAS AFFECTED tan ALLEGED
LOSS OF TMENTY-FIYK PEE CENr

now TIE BRIDGE HAS AFFECTED tan ALLEGED
LOSS or TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT.
Fulton street, east of Broadway. has for
nearly half century been considered one OF the best
places in the city for retail trade Is position between
the two great markets. am tho main outlet to Brook
lyn has mado It a much travelled thOroughfarc.
Only few few yoaIs ago 1t was almost Impossible
TO elbow ones way to the ferry In the morning. or back
AZ hin at night The street was chOked with wagons
and stages the latter filed with passengers But to-day
its glory have departed The stages pas up ana
down the with few passengers and the wagons are
scattering. The old time blockadcs that were wont 10
furnish amusement to pedcsrians and thickeu the air
with hard laugua 90 are thlhgs Of tho past There IL
plenty Of room Oh the sidewalks which deserted ai'er
o'clock in the evening, and tn, handsome women OF
Brooklyn 10 longer pass through the street flr't
the elevated roads drew away a parge nhuper
Of the Morrsania and Harlem people and now the BRUCE
has still further drained OF the human stream II inc
proposed cable roads through Madenanc and handlers
st. built still further diversion or tIaVel from III
ton-3t, may he expected.
The bushes. first to suffer was that Of the "allnight
restaurants which depended largely upon the theatre
coers of Brooklyn for night custom. Inc PROPRIETOR
OF one OF these restaurants has made an assign
ment recently and another has announced that he VIII
close hereafter at midnight and others announce th"t
they will follow his example saying that their bust
no. is almost wholly done in the middle Oi the daY Inc
UmOr and deCrH perhaps the heaviest sufferers,
The dealers in articles In winch there ~ tJe competition,
the lOngesablished houses and the custom talols 10
not feel the change much. The block between
broadway aud Nas4au-st does not seem to
have suffered much, because the ude Of
travel toward the Bridge goes down Na7Sa1-st
and Park Row. aud tine loss % the people from the up
town business districts - replaced ny those VINO formerly
went TO the ferry through the mere eastern tre''S
4 TRIBUNE reporter recently visited largo number or
fbc business IulrOn-st for the purpose oI eln
Ing 10 what extent the diversion OF travel over inc
Bridge had affected them. Most OF them were at tr,t
SLOW 70 admit that business was dull. one SIId:
II want the public 10 believe that things are
booming" Finally. however they would admit thll mere
was q falling OF in trade The amount oi loss was
placed vaIousy from - PER cent to % per cent ana
nIr estimate would pIOb, bly, be- p per cent Inc ne
crease h.us chiefly noticeable sinrc The ears nave
been running the persons who a.c accustomed 10
walk across The Bridge mainly OF tn HOn-pll ltS
class Among those with whom the reporter alkrh was
ienry Noquin proprietor Oi the eating house al No.
I1g Fultor-,t lie said: II haze defer
mined 10 close my restaurant nights | s11ll close
At midnight this week and after tins week M $3.50 p M
MY reason that it does not pay Ia IN gas aud hIe
waiter. 10 sit around Withholding 10 do. can attribute
the loss OF night custom 10 nothing but the Bdse "lc
i now scd by the th-atre-gOns people, who were com
PEELED IT, pass down Fuj u-st Uci0ro 1t was opened