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Fall 2008

Amidst all the recent chatter of elections and economic bailouts, there’s been a lot of talk about the anti–Wall Street: Main Street. While pundits and politicos might intend to invoke the family-owned businesses of Mayberry or at least Mobile, one need only cross the river from that beleaguered stock exchange to find mom and pop shops alive and well.

Though Brooklyn’s only street called Main is a modest two-block stretch in DUMBO, this issue abounds with profiles of burgeoning borough businesses from Van Brunt Street to Metropolitan Avenue. And while our nation’s commerce falls prey to multinational
brands complete with outsourcing and inferior ingredients, senior executives in these parts tend to have titles like “grandma”–which brings a whole new meaning to the term “parent corporation.”

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