Sentences with phrase «neighborhood bodegas»

Teens from the Bronx, many of them first - generation Americans, last year focused their creativity and critical thinking on a topic that was right under their noses: Who chooses which foods our neighborhood bodegas sell?

Some neighborhood bodegas — the addicts know which ones — will pay 50 cents on the dollar for anything stolen from CVS.

Theoretically, I'd say, YES, NSLP participation is better than not eating at all; it's also better than eating whatever crap you could cobble together from the neighborhood bodega, or the gas station, or what have you.

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«When I was 22 years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you better dig under your couch for a couple of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»

«I got the first piece of advice when I was 22 years old, from a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood.

Soon after its founding, the company opened a storefront scoop shop in the city's Little Italy neighborhood, where it sold gelato and sorbet to walk - in customers on the main floor while also hand - packing pints in the basement that it sold to bodegas and other neighborhood stores.

As for avocado ripeness, I'm lucky to live in a neighborhood where one bodega keeps the avocados behind the counter and then custom picks the one that fits the day you want to use it (i.e. 2 for today, 2 for Monday, etc..)

Attendees can choose from an impressive variety of workshops that range from hands - on cooking demonstrations, learning how to compost food scraps to reduce landfill waste, conversations about getting healthier foods at bodegas and neighborhood stores, and learning about food - coops and community supported agriculture as alternatives to existing food systems.

In 2016, the nonprofit brought almost $ 4 million back to the neighborhood through public assistance, with dollars spent at local bodegas, markets and more, according to executive director Anthony Butler.

In many urban neighborhoods the most convenient places to shop are corner stores, such as the bodega down the street from the Bronx farmers market.

I had lived in that neighborhood for years, walking its streets where men lurk outside of bodegas, on stoops and in doorways much of the day.

The after party at Bodega was star studded with all the neighborhood favorites in attendance.

This stretch of the Lower East Side feels, in the best way, like much of the neighborhood did ten years ago — filled with bodegas, salons, franchises and small businesses.

Hopefully the success of this pilot distribution route will allow the Fresh Bodegas project to expand to more neighborhoods where under - resourced bodegas are calling for fresh, local pBodegas project to expand to more neighborhoods where under - resourced bodegas are calling for fresh, local pbodegas are calling for fresh, local produce.

The choice of the word «bodega» instead of the more generic store might be seen as a way to indicate that many of the neighborhood's residents are Hispanic.

And I asked where these guys lived and they said in Williamsburg, and we have lots of friends tucked above bodegas all around the neighborhood.»