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Pet owners seeking eco-friendly products are gladly spending green to go green at Crazy for Animals.
“People love their animals and they don’t want to give them something that’s going to harm them,” said Joan Stack, 51, a Queens native and pet lover who opened the store, Crazy for Animals, in the Shops at Atlas Park.
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Joe Regina was walking through Westchester Square, touting the new merchants association and a much-needed city program to clean up the streets, when a passing teen dropped a soda can on the sidewalk.
Regina stopped midstride and hollered after the kid: “You do that at home?” The teen shot back, “Yeah, I do!”
Regina picked up the can, looking for the trash. “See what I mean?” he asked.
As secretary-treasurer of the new Westchester Square Merchants’ Association, Regina, who works at Quick Care Frame Repair, well knows the challenges facing the once-thriving northeast Bronx shopping district. But he and other local businesspeople are banking on the neighborhood’s resurgence, placing their hopes in their organization - and a new city program called Clean Streets.
