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If you're ever in New York City and you need an egg cream, toilet paper and cantaloupe at 4 a.m., but you only have time to visit one store, that store had better be a bodega. Part deli, part ...
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".
Mateo was born in 1957 or 1958 in the Dominican Republic, the youngest in a family of ten children, and grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. [3] [4] His father, Kristobal, worked as a taxi driver and later opened a bodega, while his mother, Carmen, was a stay-at-home mom. [5]
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 ...
Jhonny Coredero claims he found an illegal gun in the bathroom of his bodega on Nov. 28, and later used the weapon to stave off a pair of armed robbers at his Bronx business. for New York Post
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Gem Spa was a newspaper stand and candy store located on the corner of St. Mark's Place and Second Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. [2] [3] It opened under another name in the 1920s, and was renamed in 1957. [4]
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