{"id":262,"date":"2005-06-16T09:46:53","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T17:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/06\/slow_death_by_slurpee.html"},"modified":"2005-06-16T09:46:53","modified_gmt":"2005-06-16T17:46:53","slug":"slow_death_by_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/slow_death_by_s.html","title":{"rendered":"Slow Death By Slurpee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even as it cannibalizes its own past<\/a>, New York remains steadfastly opposed to the “continuing corporatization” of rustic Manhattan. Yet the hopelessly provincial still cannot stop 7-Eleven from penetrating the moat<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For a swath of America, nothing says summer like a Slurpee from 7-Eleven.<\/p>\n

But Manhattan has always been an island unto its own, so the imminent opening of a 7-Eleven on Park Ave. South and 23rd St. – the first in the borough in more than a decade – isn’t exactly being treated as the next big thing.<\/p>\n

“I’d much rather have a coco gelato,” said model Kristine Szabo, strolling down Park Ave.<\/p>\n

A 7-Eleven is an unlikely backdrop for her walk, but as she said yesterday, “Why not? There’s already everything else here. It’s a lost cause.”<\/p>\n

The “lost cause” is the continuing corporatization of Manhattan, as mom-and-pop drugstores are replaced by Duane Reades and coffee shops have all become Starbucks.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For some, however, the Vermontization of Manhattan has no appeal:<\/p>\n

. . . [N]ot everyone is so disdainful of the 7-Elevens.<\/p>\n

Marcos Rodriguez, 23, of Corona, Queens, is a club promoter who’s happy a 7-Eleven’s coming to town, and not just because “they have everything.”<\/p>\n

Does a 7-Eleven ruin the character of the city? “No,” he said. “These little newspaper stands and stuff, they ruin the character. Makes the street ugly.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even as it cannibalizes its own past, New York remains steadfastly opposed to the “continuing corporatization” of rustic Manhattan. Yet the hopelessly provincial still cannot stop 7-Eleven from penetrating the moat: For a swath of America, nothing says summer like a Slurpee from 7-Eleven. But Manhattan has always been an island unto its own, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culturalanthropological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}