Surrounded by campaign materials and holed up with his laptop and overactive cell phone in a corner of the Starbucks on 181st Street in Washington Heights, Gregg Ross carefully coordinated volunteers for Barack Obama Tuesday morning.
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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