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Kaufmann’s was the Big Store, but Frank & Seder, facing Kaufmann’s across a whole block of Smithfield Street, was hardly small. The building is now under restoration.
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The restoration has peeled away later accretions, and we can see the shadows of an old sign at the corner of Forbes Avenue.
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Two layers of ghost signs still memorialize the old department store to pedestrians on Fifth Avenue.
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Compare the photograph to this illustration of the store in 1927.