In this sad short film from one of our favorite local video producers Chris Ming Ryan and his company Wheelhouse Communications, watch the last day at Joon, a mom-and-pop local business on the Upper West Side forced to close after three decades due to greedy landlords and unreasonably rising rents.

Joon Fish Market stood at 98th Street and Amsterdam avenue in New York City for over 30 years. We filmed on their last full day open to customers which was November 6th, 2017. […] I'm hoping this short film compels New Yorkers to buy local. At this very moment, we are losing the fabric of our NYC neighborhoods as more mom and pop stores, like Joon, vanish.

Tomorrow, Saturday, November 25th, is Small Business Saturday. If you wish to keep the local stores like Joon in your neighborhood, give them a visit tomorrow and buy what you can, then continue to come back throughout the rest of the year too. Nobody wants to see a New York City without mom-and-pop local businesses. Do your part.

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This great vintage photograph shows the 1940 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade heading through Times Square, with a 80-foot-tall Superman keeping watch. According to redditor Smallville1938:

This is the first Superman balloon in the 1940 parade. Action Comics number 1, first appearance of Superman, was released June 1938. He has three versions of himself featured in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The first version appeared in the 1940 parade and was redesigned into a Football Player for the 1941 Parade. The second version appeared in 1966 to around 1969, which was the same as the original, but with a more modern look to it. The third version appeared in 1980 and appeared right up until it retired in 1987. The 3rd version is the second largest balloon in the parade's history, at over 104ft long.