I'm not sure if the mall-like giant franchise windows are that different than what he would expect to see in the windows of the big department stores, though? Maybe.

And yes, absolutely, while he would expect New York to be full of immigrants, his idea of ethnically-other New Yorkers would be Puerto Rican, Irish, Italian, Eastern European Jewish, Eastern European Catholic, maybe some Chinese ... I don't think south Asian people had shown up yet in any numbers, nor people from the former British and French Caribbean colonies.