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Mateo is a spokesman for United Bodegas of America, an organization which advocates for the owners of bodegas (small, owner-operated convenience stores which are especially common in New York). [11] In 2010, Mateo helped run a campaign to encourage New York's bodega owners to buy handguns as a deterrent to robbery. [12]
In Spanish, bodega is a term for "storeroom" or "wine cellar", or "warehouse", with a similar origin to the words "boutique" and "apothecary"; the precise meaning varies regionally in the Spanish language, and the later New York City term evolved from Puerto Rican and Cuban usage for "small grocery".
Interior of a Japanese 7-Eleven convenience store (2014) A typical bodega in New York City (2019). A convenience store, convenience shop, bodega, corner store, corner shop, superette or mini-mart is a small retail store that stocks a range of everyday items such as convenience food, groceries, beverages, tobacco products, lottery tickets, over-the-counter drugs, toiletries, newspapers and ...
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During last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, Snoeman teamed with fellow artist Maya Hayuk to paint protest posters. Working from the rooftop of her Brooklyn studio, the pair created and ...
Two people have been charged with stealing millions of dollars in benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program out of a New York City bodega one of them owned.
Stockwell (formerly Bodega) was an American company. The idea behind the company was to build 5-foot-wide "pantry boxes" that contain non-perishable food and other items similar to those found in a convenience store , with Payment via a mobile app that charges the customer by credit card .
Around this time in 2016, Bill Dess, aka Two Feet, was working as a bodega cashier in New York. Last month, the 23-year-old made his festival debut on the main stage of Lightning in a Bottle in ...