Java in the city
I would offer up to any who fain concern or anxiety over our return to the City and in particular, to the lofty nether-regions of East Harlem, that there is in fact a re-gentrafication of that part of the world: fewer crack houses and more stores, less crime and more police presence. Of course while there are 7 of the top 10 fast food chains within a one block radius of the new pad (and a Popeye's Chicken with within two), there isn't a Starbuck's to save one's mocha-chocha-latta-haha life. Rest assured Worried Urbanites and others, the Harlem Renaissance has a ways to go yet; Starbuck's will be your harbinger of Arrival. BUT...
Not only is there not a Starbuck's, there isn't any decent coffee shop, either. I'm not a coffee snob in any way and I prove this daily but re-heating the 7am pot of decaf in my office throughout the day, even going so far as to microwave the last cupful down to a thick, tarry syrup of grounds and the hydrochloric acid used in the decaffeination process. I'm saying I'll drink that coffee whether in a puddle on the floor or off a humpy, hairy man’s back. I do not stand on java ceremony. That being said, when I ask for DECAF, I'm not asking for SANKA. If I wanted reconstituted SANKA, I'd drink the first-flush water after Jeff's morning constitutional. But I don't, I want DECAF. So back to the point, Harlem from where we are down to what I expect is the most northern reach of Starbuck’s Manhattan empire at 96th street is SANKA CITY. Worse yet, on my jaunt back from the bank yesterday morning (had to tip the movers who couldn't get the couch through the building hallway back to our apartment and had to load it back on the truck to take it away), not only did I get SANKA, I got SUGAR with it when I specifically asked for no sugar and said so not once but again, a second time, when the counter guy asked if I wanted it. I'm doing OK with our boozed-up building super who pays the beer-bottle collecting collective a few bucks to help us with stuff around the apartment, but I'm not doing OK without an accessible, dependable DECAF-making coffee-shop.
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