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Prakash Sheth, owner of Houston Village Farm (East Village).

Alex Wilcox, owner of custom clothier Lord Willy’s, on why a downturn doesn’t have to be dull.

Sharon Pachter and Charles Kiely, owners of the Grocery restaurant, 288 Smith Street, Brooklyn.

What it takes to open a huge new store in this environment.

A soft spot for hard times.

When the Speyers bought Stuyvesant Town for over $5 billion, they were buying one of the last refuges of the Manhattan middle class. And remaking it was harder than it looked.

Ordinary investors may flee the market’s dizzying ups and downs, but Peter Milman and his kind hang on tight while riding the giant waves of uncertainty. There’s nothing more exhilarating than to catch the perfect surge.

As Barack Obama became the 44th president, it seemed like most of New York had traveled to Washington.

When things get this bad, convention goes out the window.

It is widely accepted that to the extent the economic crisis can’t be blamed on greedy bankers, it is the fault of the rest of us shopaholic Americans.