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Winners But the capitalists on Greene Street aren’t complaining. Keiko Fukuzaki owns a custom-made swimwear shop on Greene Street. She brags of customers like Cindy Crawford and Oprah Winfrey. Skeptics There are others who are thriving but aware of what has been lost. Jean-Jacques Ferron owns a home-decoration shop, carrying mystical stone work inspired from countries of Southeast Asia. He came from Aix-en-Provence, France, directly to New York and Greene Street in particular, 25 years ago and has never moved. He speaks wistfully about his work and Greene Street. "My work is not cold and prohibitive but peaceful and at rest. It exists in harmony with nature." Greene Street, he says, has lost its harmony as it has pushed out the very artists that shaped its character. The customers have obviously changed with the changing face of Greene Street. "Young, rude yuppie bargainers who don't know much about design and color have replaced old moneyed customers," says Aneesa Rahman, manager of Greene Street Antiques, one of the few antique shops left on the street. The latest changes on Greene Street are nothing new. Even Greenhaus says, "It was worth fighting for."
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