GOP grease

The GOP convention has been very generous to special interest groups this week, but certain New York City businesses have suffered from the Republican love machine.

For many of the businesses near the Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden, this week has been far from a party.

Yury Vinogradov estimates business is off 80 percent at his store, It's Another Hit, which sells baseball cards and comic books on West 33rd Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues.

"Exceptionally bad," said Vinogradov, 47, when an employee of a nearby tuxedo shop stopped by and asked, "How's it going?"

Vinogradov's store is on a street blocked by barricades; pedestrians must show identification to proceed or name a specific store or address where they are going.

But it's not just businesses that have been hurting. Hotel concierges, are complaining too:

They say Republicans are the certainly the party of fiscal restraint — at least with their own money.

"I wouldn't call them bad tippers — I'd call them non-tippers!" said Thomas Potesak, a concierge at the Sheraton Manhattan, where the Alaska, Iowa, South Dakota and Virgin Islands delegates are bunking.