The lack of car ownership creates an 'at your doorstep' phenomenon regardless. There is a (good but) large amount of repetitive retail in NYC vs. other big cities to compensate for the fact that most people accomplish errands on foot or by transit.
Nate Silver
 @NateSilver538
15 Mar 2019
Replying to @NateSilver538
Like, New York has everything, I agree that's a big part of the promise of the city. But it's not supposed to be an *at your doorstep* type of city, I don't think. You're supposed to walk around, take the subway, interact with people, go on some adventures, experiment.
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I have to travel 1 mile to get to the nearest supermarket in Cambridge whereas in Park Slope I would've passed in that same span three grocery stores and like six bodegas.
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Why is it weird? Undergrads are on meal plans, grads earn lolzy low stipends, faculty mostly don't live there.
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Also grad students mostly don't live here. I'm one of the few.
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Because the rents are insane? (At Yale I think the grads mostly live in or around Downtown New Haven.)
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We have a fancy bodega at Brattle and Church but I wouldn't rely on it. Then there's Broadway Market on the other side of the yard which is a real grocery store but also overpriced for what you get.
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Replying to @JakeAnbinder @mattyglesias @alon_levy
That Brattle & Church location was once a grocery (when I was a freshman in '98-'99); I think it closed around 1999 or 2000 to be replaced by a cellphone store.

Mar 15, 2019 · 8:03 PM UTC