It is still possible to walk or ride a bike to a corner store, cafe, gallery or museum.
And as this woman mentioned, somebody might have to go to a corner store, a convenience store, that has only processed, high-calorie foods.
But anti-smoking advocates say restricting sales to adults-only smoke shops would stymie illegal sales and hinder youths purchasing cigarettes through an adult who buys them at a corner store.
At a corner convenience store where Lin worked, a makeshift memorial went up with notes of condolences.
Mr Martin, it turns out, had been walking back to the house of his father's girlfriend in the gated community, having bought some sweets and iced tea at a nearby corner store.
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New Yorkers most often purchase sugary beverages in the grocery store, at a corner bodega, or a chain convenience store.
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Alain Ducasse has opened a sumptuous hotel, L'Andana, here, in a 16th-century former hunting lodge of the grand duke of Tuscany, and there is a small but impressive echelon of destination restaurants--like Caino, in the medieval village of Montemerano, and Ristorante Bracali, in a former corner tobacco store near Massa Marittima--where local chefs are rising to Michelin stardom by (profoundly) rethinking local dishes.
Under normal circumstances, I usually meet with a dozen or so constituents for a few minutes each at my Congress on Your Corner events, held at a local grocery store or coffee shop.
Set in a fairytale New York where danger lurks in every corner store, the movie dresses its slummy scenario in pretentious dialogue and a woozy camera style.
Just recently, she opened Conchita, a cultural gift store that sits caddy-corner to the The Big Place on Lincoln.
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Mr. BETTS: In the fifth grade, my mother sent me down to the corner to the store to get a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk.
This Friday the company will open its first brick and mortar Spanx store at Tysons Corner Center, a high-end mall in McLean, Va.
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If you feel the urge to pick up some scratch-offs at the corner store, at least be aware what a terrible proposition the lottery is.
It had an on again, off again relationship with Best Buy, the Apple store within CompUSA was tucked into a back corner and lacked the Apple specialists needed to work with customers, and a fling with Circuit City came as that chain was on its way out.
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At the stroke of midnight, a muffled roar rang out -- I couldn't see the store doors open because I was around the corner -- and the next 10 minutes was a satisfying blur.
"I think it's neat both for Pearl Jam and Target that they've made a deal like this that is going to include the corner record store, where so many of us fell in love with music like Pearl Jam's, " Jim DeRogatis says.
Consequently, for the first time since the days of the corner store (that was sustained or broken by a local reputation and word of mouth), virtually every brand must do what it says and act in the best interest of its customer set.
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Because your holiday gift list requires you to travel beyond the corner convenience store, Wells Fargo and Visa have teamed up for a series of special merchant offers that can save you even more money.
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He lived on paved, lighted city streets, and a bicycle ride away were the Asian drugstore and the Armenian grocery store and the corner where black Cubans drank coffee and talked Dodgers baseball.
As I walk by one corner store, its display of flowers from before the hurricane are still on sale, I see a couple go up and examine the tulips and carnations.
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Apple Chief Executive SteveJobsSteve Jobs' tiny iPod has turned his company into a category killer for the digital era--first wiping out music stores and now, potentially, the corner video store.
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