Traveling by carriage, Ronald Adler quickly arrived at Haywood Avenue in the commercial district.
Unlike the residential area where he lived,
Haywood Avenue, as Berenwich's most business-centric district, was also upgrading its gas lamps to electric lights. The pace of public infrastructure development was only slightly behind that of very important areas like Long Beach Street.
Having just hopped off the rented carriage,
Ronald immediately noticed many shops bustling around him.
The district management of Berenwich was relatively strict.
In the depths of winter, salespeople hawking goods on the streets were mostly curled up near the storefronts, their activities somewhat organized in conjunction with the standing signs promoting goods or services behind them.
Shoppers on the streets, vigorous promotions, products in the shop windows...
These scenes were framed against the backdrop of red-brick buildings.
The character of the commercial street was almost palpable.