Patricia Dunphy explains the ethos behind bringing independent shops to Long Island City, and how their ventures are a leap of faith in a still developing neighborhood.

 

“We heard that this was something that people wanted. I like the idea of these more independent drugstores. We didn’t want it to be just another strip of sort of chain stores.”

“For all of these retailers, it’s a little bit of a leap of faith. This neighborhood is new, in a way, even though it’s an old old neighborhood…It’s an old neighborhood but with a big industrial base. You didn’t have [that] sort of homegrown retail that you would have in another neighborhood.” – Patricia Dunphy

 

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Independent Pharmacy to Open in Retail-Hungry Court Square, DNAinfo