by Emma Davey As with so many other beloved businesses lately, Silk Road Cycles (76 Franklin St.) will soon shut its doors for good.
“The past 2 years have been too hard financially for us to continue. Unfortunately the bike industry is struggling all across the world since the Covid bike boom. Please support the amazing local bike shops we have left!” they wrote on Instagram.
And aside from supporting bike shops, the team encouraged folks to support…
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You can blame “shady landlords” all you want but the reality is that inflation has run amok under the Biden administration and Democratic officials who control every single lever of NY government have done very little (if anything) to support small businesses. You’re starting to see the homogenization and destruction of our cities for this reason but yes, please continue supporting the current party in power! The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again expecting a different outcome.
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Re inflation, a great deal of it (not all) was caused by Trump trillion dollar corporate welfare tax cut adding trillions of dollars onto the debt which is one of the main causes of inflation.