Gothamist: Bodega in a Box Helps You Cook Really Locally

paolo mastrangelo

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:14:27 -0500

Kit Hodge, CEO of the Neighbors Project, responds via email

infotron1000

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:26:01 -0500

Kit, I can't blame you for reaching out to this market, but I think anyone who doesn't have their head up their ass will agree that this product actually encourages the polarization you say it aims to neutralize by validating sheltered, pathetic and inevitably wealthy out-of-towners who have difficulty going to their local corner store. I looked at your organization's site and it looks to me like an attempt to make yuppies/hipsters (more accurately: bland, uncultured philistines from American suburbs with nothing to offer to this city other than money and bad taste) more vocal and therefore more annoying to their neighbors (most likely: people who grew up in New York, had to actually work hard at some point in their lives, etc.). My point of view is that out-of-towners who are boring enough to look to some website to spice up whatever NYC neighborhood they happen to be spending their young adulthood in should NOT be encouraged to lead neighborhood events. Fuck that. Personally, I think people who are intimidated by what's in their neighborhood should reconsider who they are and what they are doing in NYC... Kit, I hope you make a lot of money.

Kit Hodge

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:10:30 -0500

sharilyn

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:25:30 -0500

holy mackerel! are there really people who need to spend $25 on a book to tell them how to spend $5 on pasta and a can of tomato sauce at the corner store? i guess noone ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american consumer.

Rfive

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:22:22 -0500

wtf whantmoore? why is the first post usually from a dickhead?

whantmoore

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:10:26 -0500

that's awesome to bad the natives don't need a this book and figured it out on their own.