Woodlawn, Bronx, supermarket to close much to the dismay of local Irish

Thats not good for the Neigborhood..that store has been their 4ever ..way b/4 i've lived and terrorized the neihgborhood..what r the people left to do?

Don't forget the 5 year Gosplan!

CitizenWhy - Sounds like a great idea. Worked great in USSR, Cuba, and is currently turning out perfectly in Venezuela! We should have come to you first.

Shop local.

This is why every neighborhood needs to have an "essential shops" street run by a non-profit, governed by a neighborhood board, and paying reduced tax rates. Not running any businesses. Just renting to them at affordable rents.

It's time for Woodlawn neighbors to figure out a way to help the elderly shop or to shop for them. This has been done in almost every neighborhood I have lived - except where I live now, and I am elderly, lol. But shopping by bus is easy for me, and I go out for dinner often with a friend who drives me back and forth to the supermarket. ... Ms. Gail: I too remember the "to your door" food system in the Bronx. But the vendors were truck farmers from farms in the Bronx and Yonkers. Those farms are gone. The term truck farmer meant a farmer who trucked his/her own goods to customers.

I lived in the Bronx with my Irish grandmother in the early 50s. The meat man and the vegatable man still came door to door. The vegatable man with a horse drawn cart. Maybe some savy young business person needs to convert a small bus or truck to a traveling grocery store and travel around these neighborhoods.

Taxes,taxes taxes!!!!