Viva Flagler!

Merchant Miguel Brazlavsky: "A guy who goes to Bal Harbour has already made the decision. If I offer the same shirt with a different label for half the price, he won't buy it. He wants the label."

"These people have done things the same way for a long time," says the business association's Maira Diaz. "Can you see them putting up those signs and blasting music in a mall? Forget it."

Newsstand owner Juan Canal: "Flagler has changed so much in the past ten years you wouldn't recognize it. Change is inevitable. But no one group can decide that change."

"Somehow I just can't bring myself to buy shoes here now," says Mom, tossing aside a pair of pumps. "I'll have to go back to Flagler.