The long-running restoration of 68 Hicks Street, corner of Cranberry, includes reconstruction of the former large shop windows. According to workers on the project, the shop space, which in recent decades contained a self-service laundry operation, will now be residential. In a total divorce of form from function, the shop windows will apparently amount to blind fakes, as they do on the converted residential row on the south side of Atlantic Avenue between Henry and Hicks Streets.

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