Obsessed with how people in NYC think nowhere else has corner stores
Any drug store on the world??? Like
A bodega is a feeling. Theyâre tucked away into buildings, usually the corner, but not always. Their windows are almost completely covered in lotto signs, posters, the occasional neon light. You can still see inside (obviously) but the windows arenât filled with neatly organized weekly sales, or the big CVS/Walgreens/Duane Reade logos.
Theyâre not big and spacious with repetitive features and easy to identify isles like your average drug store. Theyâre small and homey, a unique feature for a place that is lit solely with flourecent lights. They usually have the local bodega cat (and you know a yuppie when they bitch about the cat), who sometimes lets you pet her. Their shelves are lined with snacks from obscure areas of the world, and knock off brands that somehow just taste better than the name brand. Sometimes household necessities are in their own isle, but usually theyre next to a variety of items like pet food, chips, cake mixes, cereal (it changes depending on your bodega). Coolers are filled with both alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks, sometimes humming, other times roaring because theyâre fifteen years old and held together with ducttape and a stubborn refusal to replace them. And almost always thereâs a deli that can give you a baconeggandcheese (all one word), in the morning and a chopped cheese whenever youâre craving it.
A bodega is not just a cornerstore, itâs the heart of a neighborhood. Itâs where the kids go in the morning, swarming in to get drinks, snacks, breakfast, maybe even lunch. Itâs where the tired third shifters and barely awake first shifters coming in to chat, pick up a coffee, a soda, a candy bar. Itâs where you go after school, after work, late at night, in any mood or outfit.
A bodega is a brief window into the heart of New York. The one that isnât tailored and refined by the rich, the suburbanites, the yuppies and the ever hungry universities. The one that keeps the city beating, even when all the Wall Street implants and commuters abandon ship.
A bodega is a feeling.
...Youâve literally just described a corner store
i can walk to any of the corner stores in my town and experience this
A bodega is a feeling. The feeling of a makolet. The feeling of a Mom and Pop store. The feeling of a freaking corner store.
