Everywhere a hedge, hedge. That’s the new face of downtown Greenwich, Conn., where hedge funds are spreading like weeds, as they give the local economy a major jolt. Despite some recent lamenting by businesses that say they lost a lot of business from the soon-defunct Greenwich-based Amaranth Advisors, those shops and car services should have plenty of other opportunities to make a buck, thanks to changes in corporate demographics. The Stamford Advocate reports that an ever-growing crowd of hedges are trekking daily to the Connecticut city. “We’ve got more than half that are going to Greenwich – that’s an astonishing number,” Metro-North Railroad spokeswoman Marjorie Anders told the Advocate. She cited an estimated 800 daily commuters heading for Greenwich, compared with 1,400 traveling to New York City, and a 118% increase in northbound ridership between 1992 and 2001, the last year for which there are statistics. That number probably has grown in leaps and bounds in the past five years. Hedge funds are snatching up office space almost as soon as it becomes available, and that’s helped push rental rates up to $80 and $90 a square foot, about three to four times that of nearby Stamford and Norwalk. For those who can’t find a spot downtown, says the Advocate, some are choosing sites on the outskirts and shuttling their employees to the nearest train station.