Its ground floor retail frontage has included restaurants and cafes.

Approximately 80 feet of retail frontage will be available along Broadway and 160 feet along Houston Street.

And it is difficult to assess independently, because the building includes highly desirable retail frontage, oddly shaped midrise floors and upper stories with such sweeping panoramas that they seem to be suspended in space.

Third Avenue enjoyed a building boom in the 1970's and 1980's that left it dotted with modern residential skyscrapers with spacious retail frontages.

So Macy's, which took over Abraham & Straus operations in the 1990's, sets a high tone for the area, and its retail frontage is dignity incarnate in the midway of flashy chrome, bright plastic and comparable materials.

Lately the poor have returned to Bleecker Street, to sleep along the long, barren retail frontage, but a sale on Oct. 28 week will again force their migration.

The adjacent buildings to the south have a continuous retail frontage which is punctuated by narrow entrances to pedestrian ways into the market.

The remains were demolished in 1995 and replaced by University Hall, a New York University dormitory and multi-use complex having retail frontage on 14th Street.

Eventually the east side of the Trinity site was sold to permit retail frontage on Yonge Street, enclosing Trinity Church, although a roadway connected Trinity to Yonge Street.

Homeless people had set up camps in and around the retail frontage, to the dismay of nearby residents and merchants.