Suffern revitalization plan pits mom & pop shops against retail giants
Photo credit: Sarah Armaghan | Biensy Rosa, 39, left, owner of Dominican Styles hair salon, moved to Suffern five years ago to take advantage of the area's schools. (Feb. 22, 2013)
Anne Tarantino sat on a wooden bench in the middle of The Handy Hardware Store in Suffern Saturday afternoon, gazing at what her family's hard work had built over the past 92 years, afraid of its fate as a hardware retailer gears up to open in the village by the end of summer.
Just two streets separate Tarantino's store from the Off-Track Betting site on Orange Avenue, where a New Jersey businessman...
