But in a remarkable culmination to a yearlong struggle, 95 workers at a chain of 10 sneaker stores have formed a union.
Rocky Chodha, an employee at a nearby sneaker store, said he heard a loud thunderclap and saw one of the boys fall to the ground.
The second wave of retailers since the resurgence of Times Square in 1997 is more likely to include retail banks, sneaker stores and fast food.
Ms. Santiago, a saleswoman at a sneaker store, was arrested along with her boyfriend.
The company also operates a sneaker store in Tokyo.
It happened last on Tuesday at a sneaker store.
By 9 p.m. there was only one report of looting, a sneaker store in northern Brooklyn where the police arrested three men on burglary charges.
"Trend-setting kids realized we had everything different from the everything's-the-same sneaker stores."
His first choice was a job in a sneaker store, and the rest, he said, were there just in case.
Without Jimmy, George fails to demonstrate the value of the training shoes to employees at a sneaker store, as his vertical leap is embarrassingly short.