I was rounding the corner of A and 14th on my way home and for the first time in about five years I looked across the street - the east side of Avenue A. My eyes locked onto a place that looked like a precious coffee spot. Remember when a coffee spot usually meant sixty year old waitresses, the Daily News, donuts as big as your head and cheap coffee? Not anymore baby...that went the way of the dinosaurs years ago. Even Dunkin Donuts is pimping itself out with Milky Way Hot Chocolate. What the hell is that about? Who would drink that besides a jonesing heroin addict?
Which brings me back to gramstand - the place I "discovered" today. You see that particular side of Avenue A was the home to one or two heroin hang outs masquerading as bars for so many years that I literally blocked out that part of the street from my line of vision....just a few short blocks away from me.
Now we have gramstand which is not a coffee spot but a tea spot with a website and a mission statement. The young man who sold me my coffee for $2.70 was very nice. What can I say. It's a new world order.
2 comments:
A tea spot nearby sounds nice and calming.
you know, i tried to go there the other day with one of my offspring, and it was packed to the gills! who knew that the 'hood could sustain another coffee shop. really? it has had a smack past, that space?
--writermama
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