Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
Renovations recently started inside the former Raul's Candy Store at 205 Avenue B.
The space has been given the white-box treatment ... and we have not heard anything about a new tenant or even seen any real estate listings for the address...
This is the first activity we recall seeing inside the storefront between 12th Street and 13th Street since owner Raul Santiago, 75, and his wife Petra Olivieri, 70, retired in February 2019 after 43 years in business.
The store had been a de-facto community space for generations.
We still see Raul around — his hard-to-miss skull-laden van is still parked on the block, and he and his friends will gather there in an assortment of chairs during warmer weather months.
1 comment:
actually, the space is between 12th and 13th. For a long time there was a sidewalk shed at this location. A group from the community, mainly older men, used to hang out under the shed, blasting latin music from their ghetto boxes nearly non-stop. I hope the neighbors enjoyed it. The shed is gone, and it's too cold for them to hang out on the sidewalk. We'll see if they will be back when it gets warm.
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