It's a story that seems to echo the hit movie "You've Got Mail," where Tom Hanks' chain bookstore was a horror for Meg Ryan's little shop.
A proliferation of banks and chain stores on the Upper West side has prompted the city to propose new zoning that would severely curtail the size of most future storefronts in the neighborhood.
If the proposal from the Department of City Planning clears legislative hurdles, it would limit the width of banks to no more than 25 feet per block and most other stores to 40 feet along several of the neighborhood's north-south avenues.
