The "One from the Vault" feature plumbs the archives of back issues of block association newsletters for new neighbors and lovers of our community and its history. To read others pieces from the vault, click on the category at right.
By Caitlin Hawke
Jock Davenport strikes again. This time with an article that clocks in at 16 years old. It was Y2K, the year that the CVS -- a third chain drugstore in two square blocks -- was beaten back by a community boycott. We'd recently lost our Associated Supermarket and had two large drugstores, already.
And now, by 2016, we've dwindled back down to just one mega-drug-mart in our catchment. As a sign of the times, the new tenants of choice are the urgi-care storefronts.
Speaking of Associated markets, today up in Washington Heights at W. 187th and Fort Washington Avenue, the neighbors just came together and beat back a Walgreens to preserve their beloved and much-needed Associated. Strangely reminiscent.
In June 2000, Jock asked a lot of questions that a decade and a half later are still relevant. With the recent landmarking of much of our western catchment, there were still plenty of carve-outs along Broadway. So the specter of development looms large.
The lessons live on. And, Jock, to answer your headlining question: Yes, we can!
We know. Because we did.
And now, one from the vault...originally published in June 2000.
By Caitlin Hawke
Jock Davenport strikes again. This time with an article that clocks in at 16 years old. It was Y2K, the year that the CVS -- a third chain drugstore in two square blocks -- was beaten back by a community boycott. We'd recently lost our Associated Supermarket and had two large drugstores, already.
And now, by 2016, we've dwindled back down to just one mega-drug-mart in our catchment. As a sign of the times, the new tenants of choice are the urgi-care storefronts.
Speaking of Associated markets, today up in Washington Heights at W. 187th and Fort Washington Avenue, the neighbors just came together and beat back a Walgreens to preserve their beloved and much-needed Associated. Strangely reminiscent.
In June 2000, Jock asked a lot of questions that a decade and a half later are still relevant. With the recent landmarking of much of our western catchment, there were still plenty of carve-outs along Broadway. So the specter of development looms large.
The lessons live on. And, Jock, to answer your headlining question: Yes, we can!
We know. Because we did.
And now, one from the vault...originally published in June 2000.
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