30-year-old Ben Shaoul?YVES and A Building developer, owner of secretive members-only club Norwood and a guy who is not afraid to be photographed evicting St. Marks squatters with the aid of crowbars?on why he loves the East Village (besides the $7,500/month rents he pockets): "It hasn’t become the commercial mecca yet. You don’t see a Best Buy in the East Village; you don’t see a Starbucks on every single corner—not that I would mind that, because I kind of think Starbucks belongs in the East Village, but you don’t see that yet. ? I think there’s one Duane Reade in the East Village." [NYO]
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