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WE ARE STAYING is Rubin's account of the history Radio Clinic, the electronics and appliances store her family ran on Broadway in the Upper West Side of New York City for 80 years.
This book, while primarily about the ins and outs of a family run business, is also about much more than that. Rubin follows not just the story of the store, but the parallel story of the neighborhood it resided in. Beginning with her Jewish grandfather's escape from Russia in the 1920s, WE ARE STAYING examines the changing demographics of the Upper West Side and all the factors that played into its eventual gentrification - rent raises, urban renewal initiatives, world wars, government indifference to small business owners, impossible business loan arrangements and more. It's the story of a family and their store, but also the story of a whole community.
WE ARE STAYING is Rubin's account of the history Radio Clinic, the electronics and appliances store her family ran on Broadway in the Upper West Side of New York City for 80 years.
This book, while primarily about the ins and outs of a family run business, is also about much more than that. Rubin follows not just the story of the store, but the parallel story of the neighborhood it resided in. Beginning with her Jewish grandfather's escape from Russia in the 1920s, WE ARE STAYING examines the changing demographics of the Upper West Side and all the factors that played into its eventual gentrification - rent raises, urban renewal initiatives, world wars, government indifference to small business owners, impossible business loan arrangements and more. It's the story of a family and their store, but also the story of a whole community.