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

Amy Brill remembers growing up, and growing into a community, at the neighborhood bodega in Corona, Queens
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
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.
Tracy O’Neill gets to know the nitehawks at an East Williamsburg deli
Caught between bodegas, Anelise Chen weighs the shame of paying too much versus not paying enough
Dan Sheehan recalls his immigration to New York and the Maspeth bodega where you get cash for the doctor and a touch of home
Patricia Park on the cultural practices we preserve, those we lose, and the Queens shop where bodegueros go for memories of home
Mira Jacob profiles her Boerum Hill bodega in this illustrated essay
This summer, ten authors will explore their changing neighborhoods for The Bodega Project