Cropped, then adjusted brightness and contrast. Used tone mapping to lighten and add additional contrast. Dodged the shadowed faces and the heavy shadows on the jackets. Also dodged the lanterns. Resized then sharpened by 6.
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perhaps a crop to exclude the 2 people on the left, and perhaps B&W My eye runs strieght to the nails sign, then tot he opticians sign before your main subject