The Long Walmarch

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Now that Walmart has made its New York intentions known, we're going to see months of speculation about where in the city the first store might open. Today's contender is a new shopping center at the southern end of Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, where it would join a Toys 'R' Us. [Brooklyn Paper]