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Whole Latte Love in Riverdale

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Daniel Wright got so tired of Riverdale’s lack of a Starbucks that he recruited one.

As a Riverdale real estate broker, Wright rarely went a workday without a potential client asking the same deflating question: “Where’s the nearest Starbucks?”

He e-mailed. He called. He pleaded.

Wright’s efforts paid off last month when the Bronx’s third Starbucks opened on Johnson Ave. and 235th St.

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One Response to “Whole Latte Love in Riverdale”

  1. Comment by Joe Filippazzo

    Slate had this interesting story about Starbuck’s reverse curse on Mom and Pop coffee shops. I wonder how much increased business for Mom and Pops is generated not by overflow, but by purely embittered patrons who thirst for a cup of moderate-strength black coffee for under a dollar, such as myself.

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