General Discussion

Corner Store is sort of an obsolete term at this point.

They have disappeared from the Minneapolis St. Paul Metro Area. The gas station convenience stores have replaced them. At our old hose in St. Paul, there were three former corner stores within three blocks of our house. All had been turned into rentals. The closest one had the original apartment upstairs, along with the lower level store space. The lower level had been converted into an apartment.

Similar things are scattered all over the city. But We don't have bodegas here. Nobody walks anywhere. they drive over a couple of blocks, get on an arterial street and go either direction. There's a convenience store within 1/4 mile.

NYC still has walking neighborhoods everywhere. Nobody drives inside the city. So, the bodegas and corner stores are still in business. In 2020, the estimate was that there were 13,000 bodegas in the boroughs of NYC. That's a lot.