Angel eventually plans to get a cellphone for $40 a month, but now they use the pay phone at the corner bodega.

No sense running to the corner bodega if you were out of milk.

He was best known, neighbors said, for venturing out to the corner bodega and playing dominoes with friends.

The area is lined with a hodgepodge of stores, ranging from a corner bodega to an abandoned matzoh factory.

But it's crammed with people who work 14-hour days at the family dry cleaning store or corner bodega.

Some said they knew the two by name and had often seen them stopping at a corner bodega.

They routinely spent $1 to buy a single 37-cent stamp at their corner bodega when posting bills rather than going to the post office.

"I'd like our presence to be a little bit like a public park or at least like the corner bodega," she said.

For breakfast, he has a roll with butter and coffee, which costs $1 at the corner bodega.

Adolescent boys, all legs and arms, laughed outside a corner bodega.