There is a man walking past 285 3rd Avenue in the photograph. Grey jacket, plastic bag, head down, mid-stride. Behind him is Runner & Stone, fourteen years on this corner. Across the street and up the block are three storefronts that used to be something and are now nothing. The man is not looking at any of it. That is the whole story of this corridor right now. The block is changing in plain sight and almost nobody is looking directly at it.
