The Real Deal New York

From the March issue: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones: Almost every major musical act of the last 75 years has a signed photo hanging on the “Wall of Fame” at Manny’s Music, the longest-standing store along fabled Music Row on West 48th Street in Midtown. While there are several music stores on the western end of this block between Sixth and Seventh avenues in a cluster that feels frozen in time, many fear that the volume will soon be turned off completely. The culprit: Times Square rents that have reached record highs. The property Music Row stores are sitting on would make any developer drool. “It’s inevitable that Music Row is going to end,” said Paul Ash, president of Sam Ash Music, which has operated stores on the block since the mid-1970s.