A Brooklyn thoroughfare is bustling again as the pandemic eases, but business owners are lacking workers and those hired are drawing higher pay
Angelina Narvaez got spat on when she moved away from an unmasked transit worker on a train platform. Alfonso Estevanovich is using the extra unemployment benefits to care for his father, who had a stroke. For Sophia Gasparro, the pandemic meant dealing with anxious customers. “It’s draining,” she said.
All three worked on Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue, a once-again booming 30-block strip with some 500 restaurants, boutiques, bodegas, barber shops and other businesses. Crowds that descended on the street in recent weeks have found understaffed restaurants and “Help Wanted” signs. Business owners are paying workers more and holding back on growth plans. “It’s not impossible to find people, just really, really hard,” said Rafi Hasid, who says the labor shortage might slow his plan to expand Miriam, his Middle Eastern restaurant.
Last spring, Mr. Hasid shut down and put the restaurant’s fresh food on tables on the sidewalk for neighbors to take. Now, Miriam and other restaurants can’t keep up with demand, especially when Fifth Avenue closes to traffic on Saturdays.. The street has gone from ghost town to the site of major Black Lives Matter protests to the current rebound, which is one of the strongest in the city.
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