She wanted to figure out why all the small businesses on Driggs Avenue were closing. He said it was because rents were rising, but she wanted to be able to say why much more specifically than that. It was a restaurant, a karate studio, and three or four little shops that were gone, when she walked down that avenue on her way to work. He said it wasn’t really worth getting worked up over. Think of all the shops that were left on Bedford Avenue!