Brooklyn, The Borough: Wall Street Views From Another Bank

As a chillier wind sliced through Brooklyn's popular corridors last Saturday night, it was hard to imagine by the looks of things that anything was wrong with the economy. On North 6th Street in Williamsburg, young women with Louis Vuitton bags teetered in Manolo Blahniks on the arms of their white-collared dates. Booze coursed through veins as the music at Sea shook passersby with stentorian beats.

But the next day at the sleepy Brooklyn Inn, the 138-year-old Boerum Hill bar frequented by local financial types, The Times' Sunday business section sat menacingly on the oak bar as Leonard Cohen's "So Long Marianne" wafted through the air.  read more »

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