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Duane Reade has just joined two Rite-Aids, a Starbucks and a whole lot of banks on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint. Gothamist: "Soon the neighborhood will look just like the Upper West Side, only with a greater Polish population." Um, snap? [Gothamist]