41.   In Silver Lake, few stores open before noon.

42.   Inside the walls, fancy stores have opened, some with imported shiny Italian leather shoes and fashionable French silk dresses.

43.   Instead of providing parking for hundreds of car, the multilevel store will open onto the platform for the Long Island Rail Road.

44.   Jody Kohn, a spokeswoman for Borders at its headquarters in Ann Arbor, Mich., said the store would open in the fall.

45.   Just two months after the first Staples store opened in Massachusetts, Office Depot began to open stores in the Southern U.S.

46.   Just a few stores opened in a business district that typically hummed.

47.   Last December, a Costco store opened on Richmond Avenue in Staten Island, the first in New York City.

48.   Lucille Gonzalez remembers when that store opened.

49.   Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had wanted to let the stores open in manufacturing zones without community review, while the latest plan would let community boards choose sites.

50.   More Pucci stores will open in December in Palm Beach and St. Moritz.