What's a Crown Heights Supermarket Worth?

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 Developing [What’s a Crown Heights Supermarket Worth?]( It’s a lifeline to local residents. It’s also a valuable development site. You can guess where this story is headed. Photo: Caroline Spivack Nearly every day, Manny Tavares is the first to arrive at the Associated supermarket on Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights. “You could say this is my second home, but actually it’s more like my first, because I’m here by 6:30 a.m.,” said Tavares, who has worked at the store since it opened in 1991. In his office, he keeps a running list of requests from customers for items, including a host of Caribbean spices and various plant-based meat products; one time, he ordered a batch of specialty vanilla-bean paste for a chef at a nearby Italian restaurant. When neighborhood groups host block parties, the Associated donates snacks. “I’ve seen people’s kids grow up from babies to middle school to college, and now some of them are living on their own in the neighborhood and they still keep shopping here,” said Tavares. But these days he’s running a store that should, for all intents and purposes, already be closed — and he has no idea whether, or when, that will happen. [Continue reading »]( Never miss a story from Curbed: [Subscribe now.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Why Did Food52 Just Buy Dansk? The site’s founder Amanda Hesser says she’s going to dig into the archives for reissues and sign up contemporary designers to create new lines.]( [The Chiclet Is Back Herman Miller reissues its “friendliest” seating collection.]( [New York Weed Dealers Face a Choice: Go Corporate or Stay Underground “The black market is still going to be there.”]( [We Asked the Bushwick Piano Building’s Architect: Why? “This client likes unique and interesting designs,” he says.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( It happened this week — let’s talk about it. Introducing [My Week in New York](: a new newsletter from the editors. [Sign up]( to get the next edition this Saturday, featuring senior restaurant critic Adam Platt. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2021, All rights reserved