Announcements
Photo via Rabyaa Althaibani Twitter.BAY RIDGE – Yemeni businesses in Brooklyn are boycotting the NY Post after the paper published a cover with a partial quote by Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar along with a photo of the World Trade Center burning. On March 23, Omar delivered a speech at a
Business
(Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)One thousand Yemeni-owned bodegas across the city are on strike today to protest Trump’s executive order banning immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. And a few of the shops are on your morning commute in Ditmas Park. Participating
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Animals
A new WNYC video series [http://www.wnyc.org/story/bodega-cats-their-own-words-tiger-and-nushi-sunset-park-brooklyn/] , Bodega Cats, is giving voices to our neighborhood’s furriest bodega workers. These feline Brooklynites talk about cat life, how their neighborhoods are changing, and local cuisines. Take Tiger, an orange cat, who just sleeps and eats all day.
461 6th Avenue
The corner of 6th Avenue and 10th Street has lost another deli, as the one that replaced another has closed after less than a year in the space. The Sunset Park Deli, which opened at 461 6th Avenue at 10th Street last July [/blog/business/sunset-park-deli-opens-on-6th-avenue-at-10th-street], is now closed, the
156 7th Avenue
A new grocery and flower shop has opened on the corner of 7th Avenue and Garfield, where a string of similar businesses have operated for years. New Apple Tree and the adjacent New Apple Tree Flowers opened recently at 156 7th Avenue, calling back the name of the business that
168 5th Avenue
In case you were wondering if something new was coming into the storefront at 168 5th Avenue, on the corner of Degraw, we checked in with a worker on the site who says they’re just doing some renovations, and the space will be back to a deli once they’
Bodegas
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Bodegas
You may already know Victoria and Sheeba, two local bodega cats, but now thanks to WNYC [http://youtu.be/RZUuh4Ozeak], you can know what they’re thinking — or, well, what their shop owners think they’re thinking. “I have a happy, happy life in this store,” Victoria says. “I hate
7-11
It’s several months later than expected, but at least part of the new 7-Eleven coming to Cropsey Avenue and 20th Avenue is now open. Our Elle Spektor filled us in that the gas station portion of the operation is now open to customers. Work at the site stopped or
1202 ave z
Police are on the hunt for two men wanted for a string of armed robberies at three local delis, including A & H Deli at 1202 Avenue Z, which they visited at least three times. The incidents happened between the beginning of October up until this past Sunday, and most
7-11
The future site of 7-ElevenTwo gas station/food mart combos are opening one week apart, one block apart, in Bath Beach. The first, a 7-Eleven/Shell Gas Station, at 20th Avenue and Cropsey Avenue [/7-eleven-coming-to-cropsey-avenue-20th-avenue/] is scheduled to open in one week. The second, an A-Plus/Sunoco, standing at 19th
Bodegas
20th Ave and Cropsey Ave (Source: Google Maps)A 7-Eleven franchise will soon arrive in the heart of Bath Beach, Bensonhurst Bean has learned. The empty husk of a former Shell gas station and food mart on 20th Avenue and Cropsey Avenue is undergoing an overhaul, eventually to relaunch as