New Stores Give a Lift to East 125th Street (Westbury: condos, crime)

[Mekitor]

Who would have thought? If you ask someone about this changes like 5, 10 or 15 years ago, they would have laugh at your face and talk about crime discouraging this type of progress. Harlem keeps amazing me with all these changes.



New Stores Give a Lift to East 125th Street

The grocery, Wild Olive Market, opened about a year ago in space formerly occupied by a 99-cent store and an African fabric shop, is one of a flurry of new arrivals on its historic stretch of East 125th Street: Sade Skincare, a cosmetics shop; Island Salad, a health-food café; and the Brownstone, a clothing boutique, are among its neighbors.

"We really get personal with our customers; we talk with them to see where they're coming from, and a lot of them are from the condos that are coming in," she says. The neighborhood, she says, "is changing; it's getting better fast, it's not like a 10-year turnaround.

New Stores Give a Lift to East 125th Street - WSJ.com

[Northwindsforever]

Healthy food shops. That's great, not the usual greasy junk food chains that kills you before you turn 40.

[The Great Gatsby]

Gonna need a lot more than a few stores to change that area.

[omigawd]

Originally Posted by The Great Gatsby

Gonna need a lot more than a few stores to change that area.

I agree. I hadn't been to Harlem in about 13 years. I passed through there about 6 months ago and it looks no different. Sure there are more stores there but the area is still the same old, same old.

[availableusername]

As much **** as I talk about d-bag yuppies, I can say that I am glad to see healthy food options come to that stretch. God knows another fried chicken is FAR from needed. My fears are that a lot of the locals (not the long term vacationers) will not eat at them due to years of bad habits. And more realistically, they won't be able to afford it.

So in conclusion........whatever

[Northwindsforever]

Originally Posted by availableusername

As much **** as I talk about d-bag yuppies, I can say that I am glad to see healthy food options come to that stretch. God knows another fried chicken is FAR from needed. My fears are that a lot of the locals (not the long term vacationers) will not eat at them due to years of bad habits. And more realistically, they won't be able to afford it.

So in conclusion........whatever

Agreed. When your poor you must buy some cheap junk that fills your stomach. Why buy some overpriced broccoli?

[WestburynLI to BronxnNYC]

Originally Posted by whitlock

Agreed. When your poor you must buy some cheap junk that fills your stomach. Why buy some overpriced broccoli?

I would say its the little preperation than more than anything else..i mean sometimes i go to McDs. and it can be 20$ for just 2 people...That buy a whole chicken, potaotes eggs bread pb and J and milk at the store, if not more...

[DAS]

Originally Posted by availableusername

As much **** as I talk about d-bag yuppies, I can say that I am glad to see healthy food options come to that stretch. God knows another fried chicken is FAR from needed. My fears are that a lot of the locals (not the long term vacationers) will not eat at them due to years of bad habits. And more realistically, they won't be able to afford it.

So in conclusion........whatever

Hmmm. The good thing is that those of us that prefer healthier food choices no longer have to travel a mile or more away from our neighborhoods to get fresh, healthier choices.

In the past before gentrification, no one cared about our choices, and the choices weren't provided.

[DAS]

Originally Posted by WestburynLI to BronxnNYC

I would say its the little preperation than more than anything else..i mean sometimes i go to McDs. and it can be 20$ for just 2 people...That buy a whole chicken, potaotes eggs bread pb and J and milk at the store, if not more...

Again before gentrification, there were not many choices for healthy prepared foods in restaurants, in Harlem. Now even the hole in the wall Chinese places offer brown rice, steamed veggies, and not fried meats, and fish. Other restaurants with healthier choices, that end up costing less for a meal than McD's have also sprung up. We no longer have to go more than a mile away.

[WestburynLI to BronxnNYC]

Originally Posted by DAS

Again before gentrification, there were not many choices for healthy prepared foods in restaurants, in Harlem. Now even the hole in the wall Chinese places offer brown rice, steamed veggies, and not fried meats, and fish. Other restaurants with healthier choices, that end up costing less for a meal than McD's have also sprung up. We no longer have to go more than a mile away.

Making your own food>eating out, most of the time is paramount.

Some poeple just seem to favor the latter.

Alos, Every Chinese place ive seen had brown rice and steamed stuff for aslong as i can remember. But chicken wing/french fries is the ghetto staple.