A thirteen-block strip of Court Street in Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill is home to almost twenty mom-and-pop stores, who have managed to survive even as rents climb sky high. Many are family businesses passed down through generations and, though they've adapted in some ways, they've stayed largely the same in others. One bar opened in 1874 and is still operating, and a funeral home recently sold to a 29-year-old who has pledged to keep it running in the same tradition. How nice. [Crain's]
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