A new busway on Jamaica Avenue in Queens may have helped ease traffic, but store owners say it has also put the breaks on their businesses.
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"The previous mayor is putting us out of business," Ruben said."It's like he's coming after small business. He's trying to put us out, I don't understand why." Williams says the busway, which stretches for 12 blocks, is a pilot project and can still be changed.
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