The Town Square part of Pauper's Drop housed several hotels and businesses. Fontaine Clinics sold Gene Tonic remedies to the people of the Drop and used extreme security measures to prevent burglary by its desperate customers. Rock Flanagan ran a private investigative firm out of a small office in this area but went out of business when the Rapture Civil War ruined his chance of customers. One of the only businesses to profit from the economic hardships, King Pawn, maintained a heavily locked shop here.

Skid row, originally a Pump access station for the Atlantic Express, was one of the worst places in the "The Drop." It housed the market place of the area, where many low quality inexpensive goods were peddled. The Skid Row section also houses The Limbo Room, a popular jazz and blues venue which hosted singers such as Grace Holloway, who sang about the truth of the situation in Rapture. The Limbo Room was closed as a result of the economic crash, when patrons stopped coming.