PhotoWhere are the lawn Madonnas of yesteryear? “Now, maybe 15 to 20 a month.”But the beauty of the city’s continual immigration churn is that there are newcomers who have fresh preferences in lawn statuary, creating a new market. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“Go with the flow,” said Lou Campanella’s 69-year-old father, Lou, who has worked since the day he turned 6 in the shop founded by his father, Lou. More practically, she reigns firm as stone in the city’s alternate-side-of-the-street parking regulations, even as demand for her lawn statue wanes. “The new immigrant,” said the older Mr. Campanella, celebrating his latest customers, is “the Chinese, the Arab, the Mexican.
Source: New York Times August 12, 2016 23:20 UTC