In a bustling storefront headquarters in Crown Heights, Clarence A. Norman spent most of yesterday commanding troops of campaign volunteers, discussing last-minute strategies on leafleting and getting voters to polls.

The King Day event at Mr. Sharpton's crowded storefront headquarters, always suffused with political theater, regularly serves as a reminder of his influence over public opinion, and votes, among African-Americans.

A Spy Factory retail store, like the company's storefront headquarters in a suburban strip shopping center here, mingles the charm of an old-fashioned magic shop with a particularly 1990's technology-flavored paranoia.

By Monday morning, the voice mail system in the Three Strikes and You're Out storefront headquarters had crashed under the onslaught of calls.

Two weeks ago, a bottle filled with salt and gunpowder was left on the doorstep of the Ravenite Social Club, Gotti's storefront headquarters in Manhattan.

The storefront headquarters also offers five video games, an empty soda machine and a small bathroom decorated with the graffiti, "Said no to drugs," and, "IIViva la Republica Dominicana!!"

At 9:30, Mr. Phillips maneuvered the unwieldy box-on-wheels down a steep hill and into a tight parking space in front of Midnight Run's storefront headquarters.

So Mrs. Harrigan showed up at the Republicans' storefront headquarters in Brandon and offered to volunteer.

"Rape statistics are not going down," Ms. Messinger said the other night, speaking at the storefront headquarters of the New Democratic Committee in Harlem.