Bodegas: Living the American Dream

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  • Опубликовано: 8 апр 2017
  • Bodega is the Spanish word for a small neighborhood store, but in New York City, it’s a small store that plays a very large role in the community. Maria Hinojosa of NPR visits a few of the 10,000 family-run businesses that dot the city.

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  • @PabloCruise91
    @PabloCruise91 5 лет назад +91

    You know it's a bodega when you can't even see the inside of the store from outside.

  • @Tr0nzoid
    @Tr0nzoid 6 лет назад +173

    These are the places that get robbed in just about every movie set in New York City or Chicago.

    • @bmike3808
      @bmike3808 2 года назад +5

      In my hometown the bodega workers will pull guns and shoot right back at anyone who try’s robbing them or causing any problems . At least from what I’ve seen and all the ones around my neighborhood they don’t take nobody’s crap period .

    • @ErichHoneckerDDR
      @ErichHoneckerDDR Год назад

      😂😂😂 wtf

  • @nothinghere6227
    @nothinghere6227 4 года назад +77

    There wouldn’t be a New York City without the bodegas

  • @AntiMessiah2023
    @AntiMessiah2023 7 лет назад +180

    So a Bodega is basically a Mom & Pop Grocery store run by immigrants from Latin America & the Middle East.

    • @JwGina
      @JwGina 7 лет назад +11

      AntiMessiah 7 11s are run by immigrants.

    • @AntiMessiah2023
      @AntiMessiah2023 7 лет назад +7

      ***** But they dont have the luxury of selling anything they like, right?

    • @chirish86
      @chirish86 6 лет назад +13

      Pretty much any local mom and pop store. I don't think ethnicity matters. Though each usually have general items with one or two unique specialities, food/liquor/etc exclusive that big markets don't sell. They always give me a blast from the past of nostalgia, as there pretty unchanged even with all technology nowadays.

    • @dengster8884
      @dengster8884 6 лет назад +12

      Nowadays, most of them are run by either Dominicans or Yemenis .

    • @kinqmav226
      @kinqmav226 5 лет назад +9

      Matt bodega are owned by Latinos, deli and smoke shops are owned by middle eastern

  • @Demonfireangel
    @Demonfireangel 3 года назад +13

    How do you run a news-segment about bodegas, but leave out the bodega cat?

  • @sir.fuentes7642
    @sir.fuentes7642 2 года назад +15

    Bodegas were begun by the first Puerto Ricans that arrived in NYC almost 100 years ago. At that early time, there weren't many, if any people who spoke Spanish, let alone somewhere where they could find their food staples, spices and ingredients. They opened food stores that catered only to them selling food products they consumed. They called these stores Bodega which is a Spanish word for Cellar because this was the place where their food was stored and sold to their communities. In the early to mid 70's most of these Bodegas were sold and bought by Dominicans who were then beginning to arrive en masse to NYC.

  • @einsteindarwin8756
    @einsteindarwin8756 3 года назад +6

    I understand how Diana feels. My father did not want me to run our small business so now I do what the reporter does and it’s hard work too.

  • @truckmoney484
    @truckmoney484 5 лет назад +42

    I don't get why this is so amazing....is the gap between the rich and poor that wide that the rich can't understand the existence of corner stores

    • @ginacleveland7995
      @ginacleveland7995 4 года назад +1

      .....maybe, but who cares🤷‍♀️

    • @Xozona
      @Xozona 3 года назад +7

      Yeah I’m not understanding what Is so awe I-inspiring about literal run-of-the-mill convenience stores. we have these in East Boston and we just call them corner stores - no need to create some mysterious narrative around the most common type of establishment on the planet

    • @cnacks4835
      @cnacks4835 2 года назад +4

      Don't underestimate the ignorance of a yuppie.

    • @bill4514
      @bill4514 Год назад +2

      I will say this there are very few convenience stores with fresh hot food in the midwest I've been to two through work (one we did landscaping for and they gave us free burritos:) the other I stopped to grab a red bull and saw a full retro diner counter in a gas station everywhere has convenience stores but typically the food is ya know 711 nachos and I enjoy those but that chili is questionable (I still eat it buy ya know)

  • @JoieDeVivre35
    @JoieDeVivre35 4 года назад +8

    God bless our bodegas we can’t survive without them

  • @believeinyourself7511
    @believeinyourself7511 4 года назад +24

    These Bodegas are located in Food Deserts.

    • @kingsittystudios2400
      @kingsittystudios2400 2 года назад +1

      Not true, they have bodegas in Midtown Manhattan. This is NYC,B.

    • @user-4m9-dr80h4
      @user-4m9-dr80h4 2 года назад

      @@kingsittystudios2400 "Food Desert" refers to communities with retail outlets that mostly stock and sell processed foods, without much fresh veg, meat and dairy.

  • @julianathomas8597
    @julianathomas8597 6 лет назад +37

    The dude who owns it looks like my Italian uncle lmao

  • @Flecha57
    @Flecha57 7 лет назад +3

    Loved it. Welcome Maria Hinojosa. :))

  • @ginacleveland7995
    @ginacleveland7995 4 года назад +6

    Yesss!!! Everytime I go back to visit family, I HAVE TO get a sandwich! And everytime, the owners are awesome!!🥰

  • @seanlamont8501
    @seanlamont8501 5 лет назад +25

    In Philly, we call it the Papi Store. 😁😁😁😁

  • @irisshalurhad7901
    @irisshalurhad7901 5 лет назад +21

    I get the sentiment of the bodega and the familiar faces who run them in those communities, but it is basically a packed convenience store with fresh made food.

  • @kapetatex
    @kapetatex 6 лет назад +16

    That lil boy was too cute

    • @playerhaterr6172
      @playerhaterr6172 5 лет назад +2

      Red alert this comment

    • @maka8551
      @maka8551 2 года назад +1

      @@playerhaterr6172 you made it weird

  • @decnijfkris3706
    @decnijfkris3706 4 года назад +13

    Impossible to do that in my country. You'll need a separate sanitary clean tiled room with fridges to keep your eggs at 8° degrees Celcius. You will need a chefs diploma to treat food. So basically all these bodegas we had in the past went broke or were closed down by our FDA for not complying with local and national rules. It is even hard to sell only cigarettes, gazettes and beverages. You can't do lottery. So, they all close.
    In Belgium communist government is against capitalism of any kine unless the rulers get their fair share in profits. Nobody can open a small shop without the obligatory professional and administrative formation. Europe is a kafkaian dictocracy. Read Das Prozess by Kafka to get a taste. Some businesses are allowed to distribute freely Chinese smartphones worth 600 USD cuz they get refunded by the state and they compete in the same market with companies that have to sell their smartphones and don't get state money. All this my government does to maintain equality, good citizenship and fair trade. Thank you.

  • @barbekyewsauce
    @barbekyewsauce 3 года назад +3

    New York City gang know the vibe at a bodega

  • @davanmani556
    @davanmani556 7 лет назад +15

    Pamela (Nina) love. I love her confidence and swagger.

  • @allierandolph6910
    @allierandolph6910 3 года назад +3

    My family has owned restaurants for over 35 years and my husband and I have run them for about 20 years ... my family said the same thing about doing something different... we wouldn’t change anything we love our restaurants and our patrons...keep your dream alive girlfriend... it’s ALL WORTH IT ... would love to visit after COVID is stomped out ✌️😌

  • @masterimbecile
    @masterimbecile 7 лет назад +6

    This sounds like establishments that'd be common in southern California, though I've never been in one. Must have been in a different part of town. I'll keep an eye out for one next time!

    • @NahTerrific
      @NahTerrific 5 лет назад +3

      uuhhh this is a east coast thing buddy

    • @DonJulio510
      @DonJulio510 5 лет назад +3

      In california latinos dont have bodegas. We have carnicerias.

  • @bmike3808
    @bmike3808 2 года назад

    I live in PA and we got bodegas on every single corner . They got the best hot food coffee snacks etc

  • @leslieelaine8499
    @leslieelaine8499 7 лет назад +14

    I LOVE THE BODEGA FOOD PYRAMID!

  • @robr.5044
    @robr.5044 Год назад +4

    Looks like a convenience store to me.

  • @bago510
    @bago510 6 лет назад +4

    In California Our Version of Bodegas are Corner stores or Liquor stores ANd are almost all owned by Arabs and sometimes Indians or Asians To be honest I never ever seen one owned by Latinos out here. Latinos mostly Own Mexican food or Latino Food product stores or Small Grocery stores in the West Coast.

  • @nickthehater
    @nickthehater 6 лет назад +33

    yoooooo I need someone to find that chick ig!!!

  • @3941602
    @3941602 4 года назад +4

    I walk into a bodega and it always feels sketchy. Also I dont live in a big city yet so so many bodegas.

  • @flip1sba
    @flip1sba 2 года назад +2

    That's why when I visit NYC, I usually get a deli sandwich at any local bodega than the known tourist trap delis around Manhattan;

  • @melow8261
    @melow8261 2 года назад +1

    Which block do i find Dyana tho

  • @CastleVaniak
    @CastleVaniak 4 года назад +2

    50 Cent has a song called Corner Bodega

  • @bl6797
    @bl6797 5 лет назад +7

    Why can’t they have bodegas in every city in the country!?

    • @donovanpowe8309
      @donovanpowe8309 2 года назад

      Because then it loses flavor that's the unique thing about bodegas got to go get it it's not going to come to you

    • @spdnb
      @spdnb 2 года назад

      Even if it were to end up being some bougie corner boutique owned by Becky that tries to sell "impossible chopped cheese", bodegas would be indispensable in the food deserts that comprise of most residential areas all over America. Proly not the big cities (...cause they already have them), but in suburbs, residential parts of "highway towns" away from the main strip and the various "belts" (corn belt, rust belt, bible belts) where jobs are at their highest demand, the concept of the bodega could breathe life into a dying community.
      Who knows - they may actually gain traction once people realize they don't HAVE to be owned by hispanic or middle eastern people😏. This IS America, after all...

  • @karenpaciocco8277
    @karenpaciocco8277 4 года назад +1

    The music is great in this segment. I love me some Romeo Santos!!

  • @BLaCkKsHeEp
    @BLaCkKsHeEp Год назад

    in Philippines, those are called "sari-sari store"
    "sari-sari" roughly translates to "variety"

  • @SupaEMT134
    @SupaEMT134 7 лет назад +58

    _Wow._ Can I date Diana?

    • @SuperMario97376
      @SuperMario97376 7 лет назад +1

      SupaEMT134 Diana marry me !!

    • @dengster8884
      @dengster8884 4 года назад +1

      SupaEMT134 she looks Asian (I know she is DR)

    • @kikicorniel6222
      @kikicorniel6222 4 года назад

      Is because Diane father own twelve bodega

  • @SanoKei
    @SanoKei 4 года назад +3

    If you go to a bodega get a chopped cheese (a chop cheese). You haven't experienced New York or are a real New Yorker if you haven't eaten one.

  • @jbolo5378
    @jbolo5378 6 лет назад +4

    C B Walker brought me here..."This is not a bodega!"

  • @frankm7254
    @frankm7254 11 месяцев назад

    What I got out of this is Michael, the young customer, has a fantastic mom. He refers to Diane and Miss Diane.

  • @alecsandoval2541
    @alecsandoval2541 5 лет назад +9

    I bought my first bong from the bodega

  • @Endymion766
    @Endymion766 Год назад +2

    Bodegas are nice but i cant imagine living off the food there. It's all sodium laden junk food. I know they gotta sell what makes money but where's the grocery store?

  • @earldeanpowell
    @earldeanpowell 5 лет назад +1

    I thought it was Spanish for warehouse, used for a local grocery store. No?

  • @sprinkles512
    @sprinkles512 5 лет назад +6

    you mean a convenience store?

    • @playerhaterr6172
      @playerhaterr6172 5 лет назад +8

      Yes white people term, welp I need to skedaddle up on out of here

  • @leoarzola4791
    @leoarzola4791 4 месяца назад

    Bodega are showing that self checkouts are not the future. Some just like the social aspect of talking to the cashier

  • @Splursy
    @Splursy 2 года назад

    The best coffe 😂🤣🤣🤣

  • @SanoKei
    @SanoKei 4 года назад +7

    These places loan out money to shady people. That's how they make most of their money.

  • @yaboijojo792
    @yaboijojo792 5 лет назад

    It's a locally owned Exxon

  • @jagtaggart936
    @jagtaggart936 Год назад

    looking up Kyo Kusanagi specials and strategies brought me here.

  • @spitfire3984
    @spitfire3984 3 года назад

    Bodegas are a staple in NYC. If you took away the bodegas or changed them, the city wouldn’t be the same.

  • @mikewest6569
    @mikewest6569 Год назад

    Before the Bodegas, there were the Jewish/Italian luncheonettes. NYC is always changing.

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet359 Год назад +1

    Bodegas provided a link to Puerto Rico everything from the products they
    carried to the towns in Puerto Rico from which they derived their
    names. There are leadership roles the owners of these businesses hold in
    the community. Bodegas are places where friends and
    neighbors would meet up to socialize. In the past. it was the social
    fabric of the Puerto Rican community in addition to serving the Hispanic
    population of New York City.

  • @rip1rip290
    @rip1rip290 4 года назад +4

    Quarter waters

  • @Ryguy-lg2xz
    @Ryguy-lg2xz 3 года назад +1

    Here on the west coast we just call them convenience stores

    • @reneejohnson9256
      @reneejohnson9256 3 года назад

      They use to have a lot of corner stores, just like bodega's, in LA, bck n the day! Majority were black owned! Now most are gone! Nice how new York keeps their tradition going! Maybe 7-11 made them disappear! Well basically people sold out!

  • @dave32195
    @dave32195 6 лет назад

    Got the faragaaaaaamooo

  • @datnorfsideoflongbeach
    @datnorfsideoflongbeach 8 месяцев назад

    Diana is beautiful

  • @ctdieselnut
    @ctdieselnut 2 года назад +1

    Bodega sandwiches are awesome and cheap.

  • @bmike3808
    @bmike3808 2 года назад +1

    Chop cheese baby !!!!!!

  • @everythinger1ca
    @everythinger1ca Год назад

    I wonder if a big name convenience store came in like 7-Eleven etc. would it change the demographics of the people coming in there?
    Every time I hear of a bodega it’s because something bad has happened there.

  • @SoulOfTheSouth
    @SoulOfTheSouth 4 года назад

    Dallas Penn from The Combat Jack Show

  • @AarohiXO
    @AarohiXO 2 года назад +1

    I’m here after watching in the heights

  • @koostory1776
    @koostory1776 Год назад

    Thank you TACO 🌮 people.

  • @Santiag0Camach0
    @Santiag0Camach0 Год назад +1

    Jose Alba is innocent

  • @FernandoMartinez-jq8wx
    @FernandoMartinez-jq8wx 3 года назад

    Woooo😋

  • @robertthorpe2401
    @robertthorpe2401 5 лет назад +1

    Bodega means “warehouse”
    Not neighborhood store,
    At least in Mexico it is.

    • @DonJulio510
      @DonJulio510 5 лет назад +1

      Robert Thorpe in el slavador as well.

    • @TioElon
      @TioElon 4 года назад

      La tiendita de la esquina for us in México, right

  • @ajfadeaway99
    @ajfadeaway99 6 месяцев назад

    This ain't nothing but a corner store for us in Miami. I dint see what the big deal is because we had these forever

  • @vjiggy81
    @vjiggy81 3 года назад +1

    that young girl is beautiful

  • @kisa4748
    @kisa4748 3 года назад

    so its 711 but owned and ran by a local

  • @user-4m9-dr80h4
    @user-4m9-dr80h4 2 года назад

    In Cal, the stereotype is the convenience store, like 7-11, owned and operated by Indian, Korean, Middle-Eastern men, that are often hit on by gangstas.

  • @chardelraconner7324
    @chardelraconner7324 Год назад +1

    leaving by foot hinge pressure cloat ain't traditional

  • @lui8586
    @lui8586 3 года назад

    bodega for Northern mexico means warehouse. but went i hear bodega with caribian accent i know what they are talking about

    • @gladimirsavinon104
      @gladimirsavinon104 2 года назад

      Portoricans are the ones that call it Bodega. In D.R. the word is Colmado

  • @bajajablasted
    @bajajablasted Месяц назад

    Came here after JLos order

  • @migspeculates
    @migspeculates 4 года назад +1

    In the Philippines, bodega is where we store old and broken things. So expect cobwebs, rats, spiders and roaches together with old memories when you go to our bodega. 😂😂😂

  • @lordbenito007
    @lordbenito007 3 года назад

    OMG bacon egg and cheese

  • @moisepicard8855
    @moisepicard8855 2 года назад +1

    🇭🇹🇭🇹🇫🇷🇫🇷

  • @GRINGOf10
    @GRINGOf10 3 года назад

    Bodega actually means "storage" liears

  • @Vortex493
    @Vortex493 2 года назад +1

    HE AND HIS BROTHERS OWN 12 OF THEM, LOL SO THATS WHERE ALL THE DRUG PROFITS ARE GOING

    • @gladimirsavinon104
      @gladimirsavinon104 2 года назад

      Bodegas are very profitable. Most people think those businesses struggle, because that's how they're depicted in movies.

    • @everythinger1ca
      @everythinger1ca Год назад

      💀🤣🤣🤣

    • @everythinger1ca
      @everythinger1ca Год назад

      @@gladimirsavinon104
      Every bodega I’ve seen in the movies is depicted by rude employee,some sort of drug deal going on inside or outside the store and a fight. but it seems the movies are not too far off considering the news especially as of lately with so many robberies and murders.

  • @giovannivivar471
    @giovannivivar471 3 года назад

    Working since she was six isn't that ilegl

  • @turbopower130
    @turbopower130 Год назад +1

    Now explain how it's a front for drugs and criminal enterprises

  • @jazlyn2648
    @jazlyn2648 Год назад

    They scare me

  • @mb24777
    @mb24777 4 года назад +1

    whats diana IG brooo

  • @prvovulture
    @prvovulture 3 года назад

    It’s called a deli

  • @louievillasenor3111
    @louievillasenor3111 3 года назад

    So these men are just Money laundering. Just making everything community legit. Hats off too you

  • @eddies366
    @eddies366 Год назад

    Bodega is a warehouse not a convenience store. Just another example of Puerto Ricans messing up the Spanish language and the east coast following suit.

  • @eddiev4785
    @eddiev4785 4 года назад +3

    30 yrs and she dont speak english

    • @Koval4191
      @Koval4191 4 года назад +5

      Apparently you don’t either it is speak not speek

    • @edwinlucianofrias1643
      @edwinlucianofrias1643 4 года назад

      She “doesn’t.”
      I don’t
      You don’t
      He/She/It doesn’t
      We don’t
      They don’t
      You know...English!

    • @edwinlucianofrias1643
      @edwinlucianofrias1643 4 года назад

      She doesn’t!

    • @TheMijman
      @TheMijman Год назад

      No national language. No legal requirement

  • @nagasaki8031
    @nagasaki8031 3 года назад +3

    Thirty years in America and still can’t speak English

    • @2abbaking
      @2abbaking 3 года назад +1

      Neither can trump

    • @TheMijman
      @TheMijman Год назад

      Why would they need to?
      It's not legally required to speak any specific language in America

  • @seanjuth
    @seanjuth 4 года назад

    Suffers from diabetes? You guys have definitely been hit in the head. Mind your own damn business

  • @lancebaker1374
    @lancebaker1374 7 лет назад +2

    WRONG!!!! Bodega is a cellar. A wine cellar is the most common way to use the word. Tienda is a small store or shop.

    • @SanoKei
      @SanoKei 4 года назад +1

      That's also wrong. . . It means warehouse. . .chill

  • @judybrown8258
    @judybrown8258 4 года назад

    English in America

    • @edwinlucianofrias1643
      @edwinlucianofrias1643 4 года назад

      Judy Brown F America!

    • @kimper_ayqpa
      @kimper_ayqpa 3 года назад +1

      Jajaja. Colorado Montana Oregon California tejas florida nevada nuevo México jajajaa

  • @juanshaftpatel7488
    @juanshaftpatel7488 5 лет назад

    so child slavery is ok again?

  • @federalbureauofinvestigati7638

    I’m calling ICE😂