Jewelry Store Interview

This is an interview with two jewelry store owners in Chinatown.  They spoke to us about their experiences with Hurricane Sandy.  They said they could not open the store because there was no electricity, and they needed lights to display the jewelry.  There was no one in the streets, and it was really dark like a “dead city.”  You would only know people were near you if you bumped into them.  Their business was negatively affected, like after 9/11, when as a result of the disaster there is now little to no business.  The government offered them loans which they would have to pay back, but they did not see these as necessary since they did not lose any of their jewelry like a food store owner would lose his perishables.  They have an apartment in Chinatown and one in Queens, so they were able to stay in their unaffected Queens home.