Here’s how gyms, salons and ice cream are changing America’s Main Streets

MilkShake Factory, Maroons Creamery and Hey Yogurt are among the many dessert shops in downtown Ridgewood, N.J., which is seeing a shift from retail to services. Thalia Juarez for NPR

Thalia Juarez for NPR

Change sprawls constantly across the storefronts on the postcard streets of downtown Ridgewood, New Jersey.

The big avenue, East Ridgewood, cuts across streets called Walnut, Chestnut and Oak, and then abuts the train station that connects this commuter suburb to New

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