Word: storefronts
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...headquarters is one long room, a former storefront with the green floor tiles peeling up and coming loose. There are eight battered wooden desks with telephones, stacks of brochures, a table piled with sodas and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a fax machine, a Canon copier and a coffee maker at work...
There is a vacant lot at the corner of Quincy St and Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury, next door to a storefront bearing the name "Gang Peace." The ground is mostly dirt interrupted by patches of grass, but the place is pretty clean. It wasn't always that...
Syrita had tried repeatedly to warn Antwan of illicit goings-on at the playground. But such warnings carry little weight for a kid growing up on society's margin. Antwan lives in a storefront apartment just blocks from the drug-saturated playground. His mother and grandmother survive on public assistance, and his mother is battling depression with medication and counseling. His father is long gone...
...prosecutors, hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed into dummy shops in Manhattan's jewelry district each day from nationwide drug couriers. The cash was bundled into duffel bags or gold- shipment crates and driven by Brink's or Loomis armored trucks to the Saccoccia Coin Co., an unobtrusive storefront in Cranston, R.I. (pop. 76,000), or to a second location in Los Angeles. Thereafter, most of the money was subdivided, deposited in U.S. banks -- ranging from Rhode Island's modest Fleet/Norstar to Bank of America -- and then converted into cashier's checks made out to dummy firms. Next the money...
...LaMacchia, president of The Ultimate Bagel Company, said he paid "essentially a six-figure number" to sublease the storefront from Emack & Bolio's, which rents it from Harvard Real Estate...