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In another troubling sign of the pandemic’s effect on the U.S. economy, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and her staff found more than 330 vacant storefronts along New York City’s iconic Broadway, a 78 percent increase from 2017, according to a report.

The survey, conducted at the end of August, found 335 empty businesses, compared to 188 three years ago, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Starting next year, New York City’s Department of Finance is expected to begin releasing more comprehensive vacancy information as part of an annual online storefront registry, helping provide a more comprehensive picture of how the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus has impacted businesses in the Big Apple.

Officials in Brewer’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request by The Epoch Times for comment.

The downbeat survey follows a July study (pdf) by The Partnership for New York City, a nonprofit group that focuses on research, policy formulation, and issue advocacy, which estimated that up to a third of the city’s 230,000 small businesses may never reopen.

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