Totally Superfluous Deli Opens on Fulton
Aspiring Bodega Owner #1: Hey, Partner, let’s start a bodega. Aspiring Bodega Owner #2: Great idea, buddy. Where? Aspiring Bodega Owner #1: How about four doors down from an existing deli? Aspiring Bodega Owner #2: Great idea! We can’t lose! GMAP Update: The 713 Deli has actually been closed for a while so maybe the…
Aspiring Bodega Owner #1: Hey, Partner, let’s start a bodega.
Aspiring Bodega Owner #2: Great idea, buddy. Where?
Aspiring Bodega Owner #1: How about four doors down from an existing deli?
Aspiring Bodega Owner #2: Great idea! We can’t lose! GMAP
Update: The 713 Deli has actually been closed for a while so maybe the folks opening the new place at 707 Fulton are actually business geniuses and it’s our commentary that’s superfluous!
well fell off the point:
mr b. – when i saw that this had opened, i was totally astounded. WHAT is wrong with this stretch?!!
there are literally 5-6 bodegas within a 2 block radius.
Being Boston raised “jimmies” it is – and in my case “that’s so gay” as well. Can only assume tyburg was being cutesie with that response to Rob’s ignorance of the term (and – unnecessary personal attack alert – of all things [NJ = New England? really?]).
“it’s definitely a good way to make poor people pay their fair share of taxes tho”
Nice! Now we need a Federal game so the Fed gets in on it too. (and get rid of the EIC for people who don’t pay!)
I don’t play numbers, but I sometimes play Lotto, and from overhearing players and cashiers, I don’t think numbers cost as much as Lotto tickets, hence a long string of numbers for only a couple of dollars. Be that as it may, no matter how much someone plays numbers or Lotto, the money does not go to the tax coffers, so it has nothing to do with “poor people paying their fair share of taxes”. And let’s not go there anyway, as it won’t be pretty.
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It’s a regressive tax on the poor, rob, and it’s disgusting.
so are cigarette taxes, and soon to be soda taxes. no one has a gun to to their heads telling them to waste their money on cigarettes, lotto, and soda right? i do think the cig tax in ny is outta control tho. grrrrr
*rob*
Aspiring Developer #1: Hey, Partner, let’s start an overpriced condo development.
Aspiring Develop #2: Great idea, buddy. Where?
Aspiring Developer #1: How about a few doors down from Toren, Avalon, Oro and Belltel?
Aspiring Developer #2: Great idea! We can’t lose!
It’s a regressive tax on the poor, rob, and it’s disgusting.
do both of these places sell lotto? lotto at some of these places brings in TONS and TONS of costomers, and sometimes the lines are absurdly long (especially now that there is mega millions and the other one 4 nights a week). you never in a bodega and you see some OBVIOUSLY poor person reading off a list of like gazillion numbers? where do they get the money to buy all these lotto tickets!? it’s definitely a good way to make poor people pay their fair share of taxes tho.
*rob*
It makes sense when you have multiple bodegas near the subway stations – heavy traffic in morning and evening for coffee and beer (like at 4th ave and 9th St, or Fulton and Washington). This isn’t that close to the subway though, and not the highest trafficked, since a lot of people head to Atlantic Center, not Nevins, so definitely an odder choice of setting up shop.