Brooklyn boasts more chain stores, says report
The times they are a chain-gin’.
After the Center for an Urban Future’s latest “State of Chains” report—a comprehensive annual ranking of New York City’s national retailers—was released earlier this month, Brooklyn outranks most other boroughs with its number of chain stores, second only to the Bronx.
“Our eighth annual ranking of national retailers in New York City shows that the growth in chain store locations across the city slowed considerably over the last year,” the Center writes in its report. “Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens were the only boroughs to experience net increases in the number of national retailers, while the net number of locations declined in Manhattan and on Staten Island.”