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She listed the toll of escalating store rents.

But retail space in these residential buildings has been hard to sell despite the pressures of rising store rents in many parts of the city.

The Tulsa Ballet owns rehearsal studios in an outdoor strip mall, where store rents are used to support it.

And you can be sure they aren't going to roll back any apartment rents after they achieve enormous increases in the store rents."

By that decade there were no private houses left on the block; any old residents who still held on to their brownstones were collecting store rents.

But growing acceptance by apartment tenants - and increasing revenues from store rents - allowed the development of the familiar model of ground-floor stores with apartments above.

Catherine Hickey, director of economic development for the Flatbush Development Corporation, said store rents on Cortelyou Road are typically $1.50 to $3 per square foot.

AFTER almost a decade of heady growth, store rents in many Manhattan neighborhoods are beginning to decline as landlords sitting with large blocks of space grow nervous.

Store rents on prime streets preclude that; they have risen strikingly in recent years, said Jeffrey Brooker, the president of Webb & Brooker, real estate brokers.

This Internal Revenue Service regulation limits the commercial income of a residential co-op for such things as store rents to no more than 20 percent of its gross income.

They describe the shopkeepers as "outsiders" who profit from Harlem's dollars, and say that impoverished peddlers, who cannot afford store rents, are entitled to do business in their own community.

It allowed them to simply pay a flat 30 percent tax on earnings generated by reserves as well as auxiliary revenues such as fees for the use of a clubhouse or store rents.

While it may seem like a retailer is making a large profit from this markup, the proceeds are used to cover many costs such as the buyer's salary, store rent, utility bills, and office costs.

As for his New York business, Mr. Bennett said he decided it was time to migrate in June 1998, when he was told that his Seaport store rent would be doubling.

Mr. Shmuel said the high wholesale cost of most videos, the competitive pressure to keep his prices low, and the increasing cost of store rent and taxes made it difficult to make a profit on rentals alone.

The space the store rents from the Economic Development Corporation for parking belongs to a 4.5 mile stretch of waterfront from 72d Street to 155th Street that is designated for a bicycle-pedestrian path called Riverwalk.

Most of the cost of clothing sold in stores in the United States involves design, transport, financing, insurance, store rent and so forth, while the shirts, pants and other garments by themselves often cost only $1 or $2 to produce.

The company, which had previously announced that it would close 75 to 80 stores, also said that while underperforming stores were still be scrutinized, all proposed closings would be delayed while it was renegotiating store rents with its landlords.

The theories go something like this: Just as a grocer who takes in $10,000 in sales but pays $5,000 in store rent has little left over to invest in a second store, so Americans, after loaning billions of dollars to the Government to pay all its bills, lack enough cash to invest in new sources of wealth.

Faith Hope Consolo, vice chairman of the retail leasing firm of Garrick-Aug Associates, said that these compared with a going rate of $60 a square foot for stores on the broad thoroughfares of Essex and Delancey Streets, but were on par with store rents on Rivington, a side street.