CHAPTER VA History of the Eighteenth Century
Timuroff’s shop occupies the third floor of a very old, very narrow stone business building on Battery Street, one which has survived simply because, in today’s economy, it could not be replaced profitably. Huddled against an insurance company’s structural display of wealth in glass and steel, it never is really noticed by the weighty businessmen and hurrying young executives and attractive secretaries who pass its door.
That, of course, is how its tenants like it, for none of them is anxious to attract casual passers-by. The ground floor consists, at least visibly, of nothing but a tiled hall containing a wall directory, an elevator, and the locked door to a staircase; the rest—warehouse space, boiler room, and a garage opening on Magruder Al
