While Manhattan struggles, Brooklynâs indie shops are doing fine Retail chains have failed all over New York City. Is it a surprise that smaller stores can finally breathe in the boroughs? Ginia Bellafante Save Share New York | With the exception of November 1929, there has probably been no moment less conducive to opening a jewellery store in New York than at any point during the past 11 months. So it was a hopeful and norm-defying sign, like a heat wave in a Finnish noir, to find Page Sargisson Jewelry arriving on the corner of Hoyt Street and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn right after Th...