Willoughby's, which proclaims itself (the world's) Largest Camera (department) Store,[1] was described in 1997 by The New York Times as "New York City's oldest camera store.
[5] For a while, the 1967-founded 47th Street Photo, about which tourists with a halting English would mistakenly ask for 47th Street Camera,[6][7] was a geographically not too distant competitor, but 47th closed a year before Willoughby's celebrated its 100th anniversary.
Other areas in which the store competed were computers and other business machines, and a film lab.
In the over a century since its founding by Mr. Willoughby, including the period when one or more of "Peerless",[8] "Camera", "Emporium"[9] "Department" and "Store" were part of its name, it has been owned by various others.
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