Bodegas are literally just gas stations without the gas, IDK why NYC thinks they're the only city in America where you can go to a convenience store at 2 a.m

Also the thing where they'll talk about how "diverse" the staff at Bodegas are and how that makes them special, as if every 7/11 outside the North East is exclusively staffed by white coal miners.

Brooklyn delenda est

  • sempersigh [he/him]
    4·
    4 years ago

    As someone who lived on the west coast and now lives in the NYC metro area i guess it has less to do with the products and more with the aesthetics of bodegas and how they're such a NY specific institution. I wish I could give you a better answer than "the vibes are just different man" but that's just how it be.

    Also you typically need to drive to those places whereas here almost everywhere you just walk out your apartment down the block to the bodega. The OP is wrong though of course, on the west coast my apartment was next to a 24 hour circle K and i could get that stuff whenever.

                    • UnironicWarCriminal [any]
                      2·
                      4 years ago

                      Anyone who's truly worried about their impact on "the hood" just shouldn't be moving there in the first place! Conducting yourself in some special way doesn't make the rent go down, and it's just undignified for everyone involved.

                      You can bypass things by "knowing someone" literally everywhere if you have social relationships. Giving "Papi" the "nod" just makes you look like some asshole who talks about "Dis thing of ow-uz" to a pizza waiter.

                        • UnironicWarCriminal [any]
                          2·
                          4 years ago

                          The only thing that a gentrifier can do to stop gentrification is refuse to pay more than the normal rent for an apartment. If they do move to the neighborhood, then acting like themselves and being a respectful member of the community is part of the gig. "Chopping it up with a cafecito" and trying to haggle and shit is something that you learn over time, as in a process that develops naturally, not that you do on day one.

                          Acting like some shitty caricature because you moved to "the hood" is Gentrifier 101.

                            • UnironicWarCriminal [any]
                              3·
                              4 years ago

                              What does this have to do with "carrying yourself" so that a Bodega will give you free/discounted shit?

                                • UnironicWarCriminal [any]
                                  2·
                                  4 years ago

                                  Where does where you live factor in? All the things you mentioned are good no matter where that person lives.

                                  What "impact" do gentrifiers have if they don't pay more for rent than their neighbors? You're starting to sound like my grandparents who complain about black people "ruining" their old neighborhood.

                                    • UnironicWarCriminal [any]
                                      1·
                                      4 years ago

                                      is done by outsiders to the community moving into a community that is not theres,

                                      Is it gentrification when some dago says "eh, da fuckin' m*lies moved in and ruined da COMMUNITY and da property values with that "music" and how dey act!"?

                                      (in my neighborhood as a child, i didnt start getting harassed by cops until gentrifier types moved in, and it was very clear that we were super policed to make gentrifiers feel safe, so the process of gentrification could continue.)

                                      "When I was coming up, you neva had to lock ya doors or worry about nothin'. No mugging, no drugs, no music at all hours of da night. Not til those fuckin types moved in!"

                                      Gentrification is an economic issue around housing. When you start talking about "outsiders" moving to a community that "is not there's", you are making the exact same argument as people who are against immigration. Communities aren't "not yours" unless you're a nasty racist/bigot. You don't get to say that your community is special and gets to arbitrarily exclude outsiders who "aren't like us" or "just don't fit into our culture"

                • cum_drinker69 [any]
                  1·
                  4 years ago

                  Lol stop trying to mystify a corner store, every city on earth has them.

    • T_Doug [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Maybe it's a personal thing, I've never lived in NYC, but I have traveled there a lot and been to Bodegas, and honestly didn't feel they had that different of a "vibe" from the convenience stores I've shopped at in Central Canada.

      if I lived in NYC that might change though.