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While the Fedora Lounger in me would love to see buildings and businesses continue in their original state, as 3fingers notes, there is something cool and uplifting (even with a tinge of remorse for what was lost) to see buildings reused for other businesses.
NYC is a viciously competitive business environment with small-business turnover far exceeding the national average, so seeing buildings reused and reused again is commonplace. Sometimes a bakery becomes a clothing store or an auto repair shop becomes a restaurant and it's neat in its own life-goes-on way.
But one of my favorites is when a business turns over but a new business of the same type takes over - so the building remains what it was - a restaurant or dry cleaners or what have you. If you believe buildings have souls, then I think this makes the building happy.
A great example of this is the corner of 1st Avenue and 62nd Street in NYC where you can see in the two photos below that the lower left part of this building has been a casual dining establishment (first a "lunch bar" and now a "diner") since at least (guessing from the first pic) the 1930s:
