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!
“Anyone remember the Radio District?”
Before my time, but many of those store were forced out of business (actually through eminent domain) in order to build the World Trade Center. Heartbreaking stories about families who never financially recovered…
Superfluous? Yeah, there were already blogs about Brooklyn, and now this one, all just a few letters apart on the same screen. How do you compete?!
Is Brownstoner still the same guy? Hard to imagine that such a change in editorial tone could occur in just the last two days.
Mr. B- if you are still Mr. B. hope you’re OK. You sound like you’re blogging from a place of frustration.
whatever the logic, outcome will determine who’s right. if this one poops, then Mr B is right. If it survives, Mr B will have to update his notepad
you’re wrong cheetah boy
jimmies?!?! it’s SPRINKLES!
*rob*
I’ll have a mint chocolate chip on a sugar cone, rainbow jimmies. Here’s a five.
WBer – I dont know if that theory holds for ‘bodegas’ that have a generalized product mix. People arent cross shopping beer and pretzels the way they might jewelry, electronics or even restaurants –
In the Netherlands they have pickled herring carts on the beach… so refreshing. Aaack.