After 24 years, Helen Ann Lally of Your Neighborhood Office on Bleecker Street “retires to the beach.” And “it was not the rent,” Helen Ann corrects, but changes in business like pre-paid packages. When pressed to talk about her long, intimate encounters with many customers-turned-friends, she demurred, “Ask my customers,” and yet another came to give her a hug while echoing a chorused lament, “What are we going to do without you?” Photo by Zoe Pappis.
