As passers-by gazed at him, Mr. Leroy, 52, took a puff on a cigar and told them, “Welcome to the old Bowery,” before turning to enter the shop, housed beneath a faded and tattered canvas tent between the Bowery and Elizabeth Street. Soon, Mr. Leroy said, he will hang a banner at the store announcing that the tent is coming down. He said his landlord planned to start construction on a two-story brick building there in late winter.
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