Ana Mitila Lora writes in the List?n Diario today on the closing of the Kentucky Fried Chicken location in Arroyo Hondo. She mentions that the franchise, like the now-closed Church?s Chicken franchise, opened in Santo Domingo during the happier days of the economic boom under President Leonel Fern?ndez, who promised to turn the Dominican capitol into ?a little New York?. Lora points out how local chicken franchises and pizza stores, such as Victorina, Palapizza and others, continue to be successful and comments that the present economic storm could cause Dominicans to forget the ?little New York? dream, and instead turn to concentrate on building a ?big Santo Domingo?, this time free from political and business complicity.