New Grocer Coming to 4th Avenue
The ground-floor space at 4th Avenue and President is being built out to become a “deli grocery store,” according to DOB permits. Folks in the neighborhood say they’ve heard it’s going to focus on organic products. So a fancy bodega, perhaps? GMAP
The ground-floor space at 4th Avenue and President is being built out to become a “deli grocery store,” according to DOB permits. Folks in the neighborhood say they’ve heard it’s going to focus on organic products. So a fancy bodega, perhaps? GMAP
I work right down the street from this location and have been chatting it up with a few of the workers. They haven’t told me the name of the store yet, but is definitely an organic market!
> isn’t it time for a new name…?
How about “delhis”?
Geographically inaccurate, yes, but pleasantly familiar.
altervoce – good idea. Souks?
hahahaha – well in my day (ok not that long ago) a deli was either run by Germans/Italians or Jewish folks and were the only places to go in a given neighborhood for a great sandwich and sides – nowadays I would think twice about ordering a sandwich from a bodega much less a salad like Potato.
Oh thank God they are going to focus on organic products. I only buy organic. I really can’t believe in this day and age anyone would be so uneducated that they wouldn’t buy organic, cruelty-free, fair trade, locally produced food. Actually I guess I can believe it. They’re all Republicans.
For a certain generation of New Yorkers (i.e.: my parents), the generic name for these stores was “deli,” from the German Delikatessen, from the plural of Delikatesse, delicacy, from French délicatesse, from Italian delicatezza, from Latin dlictus, pleasing. It didn’t matter if the proprietor was from a “romance language” country or if the product line featured delicacies; that is what they were called.
Then, reflecting who was running the corner stores in many neighborhoods, or at least the ones my friends and I could to afford to live in, “bodega” became and remains the default term. However, as I look at who is now operating these stores around Brooklyn, isn’t it time for a new name, something in Arabic?
Yeah, I heard ‘organic market’ the other day – someone asked the workers. I was thinking more along the lines of a Union Market sort of place, although I don’t really know. Can’t see much of a need for another bodega right here. A real grocery story, of course, would be great.
I dont think this if going to be a “fauxdega”; it is WAY too big for that and the windows are too ‘fancy’. The DOB permit says no change in use so that isnt too much help; but if it ends up being a grocery – I am assuming more in line with Union Market; than Rivera’s Food Mart,
Rob – yes there’s a 2nd avenue – as far as I recall – there’s not too much as far as stores/retail along 2nd as I believe 2nd stops at 3rd street due to the canal. So 2nd avenue is mainly warehouses etc