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  • Finding Community at a Queens Bodega

    Amy Brill remembers growing up, and growing into a community, at the neighborhood bodega in Corona, Queens

    Aug 25 - Electric Literature
    the bodega project

    Paying Homage to the Kings of Fulton in Brooklyn

    In the face of white gentrification in Ocean Hill, t’ai freedom ford makes sense of the bodegas that betray us and those that sustain us

    Aug 4 - Electric Literature
    the bodega project

    The Brief History of a Small-Town Deli

    A six-pack for the priests and darts for the devil worshippers. Eddie Joyce looks back at small town Staten Island life, then and now.

    Jul 28 - Electric Literature
    the bodega project

    Late Night at the 24-Hour Bodega

    Tracy O’Neill gets to know the nitehawks at an East Williamsburg deli

    Jul 14 - Electric Literature
    the bodega project

    In Chinatown, Convenience and Thrift Come at a Cost

    Caught between bodegas, Anelise Chen weighs the shame of paying too much versus not paying enough

    Jun 30 - Electric Literature
    the bodega project

    A Visit to the Irish Embassy in Queens

    Dan Sheehan recalls his immigration to New York and the Maspeth bodega where you get cash for the doctor and a touch of home

    Jun 23 - Electric Literature
    the bodega project

    Sundays in Flushing at the Korean Grocery

    Patricia Park on the cultural practices we preserve, those we lose, and the Queens shop where bodegueros go for memories of home

    Jun 16 - Electric Literature
    the bodega project

    From His Corner, A Bodega Owner Watches Brooklyn Change

    Mira Jacob profiles her Boerum Hill bodega in this illustrated essay

    Jun 9 - Electric Literature
    the bodega project

    New York City, Seen Through Its Bodegas

    This summer, ten authors will explore their changing neighborhoods for The Bodega Project

    Jun 2 - Electric Literature
    the bodega project
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