bodega
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After holding up an egg-cheese-and-jalapeño sandwich from a local shop, he announced, “I look forward to delivering for every single bodega owner.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Subsidized goods for a low price may be a nice change at first, just have the common courtesy to not let the door hit your favorite bodega owner on the way out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
The sequence in Episode 2, when the bodega is raided and people are dragged away by the Anti-Vigilante Task Force, that was filmed before Los Angeles, before Minnesota — before all of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Beyond the specific case of bodega cats, Taylor is pushing for a more radical overhaul of animal protection in New York.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
When I left the bodega, I had a plastic bag stuffed full of ice cream—mint chip and chocolate and cherry vanilla and caramel swirl and Heath bar crunch.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
You may miss stocking up in well-lit superstores but enjoy getting to know shopkeepers who run tiny bodegas.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Lost will be the ungentrified bodegas that celebrate neighborhood regulars by thumbtacking Polaroid photos of them to the wall and let customers buy sandwich bread on credit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Taylor said she backs another initiative proposed by state assembly member Linda Rosenthal, a prominent animal welfare advocate, who proposes allowing cats in bodegas under certain conditions.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
It was near midnight, and he was gliding between stalls and bodegas, activating the city’s Muslim community—roughly 9 percent of New Yorkers—with his now signature mix of warmth and urgency.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2025
We got bodegas on both ends, which is cool, and a whole bunch of what my mom calls "interesting" folks who live in the middle.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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