I enjoy fast food, I do not want to bad-mouth it. But, there does not need to be multiple fast food places and general places to eat at every street corner. In the area around 170th street and Jerome Ave. in the Bronx, like many places in the Bronx and throughout New York, there are too many fast food places in a small area.
They closed one of those places that sell fruits and vegetables and right next to it, they just opened up a new Kennedy Fried Chicken about a month or two ago, even though there is one about three short blocks away and multiple places to eat within the same block.
Within that small section, there is a Wendy’s, Burger King, McDonald’s, KFC, Pizza Hut, Dunkin Donuts, Subway, 2 Kennedy Fried Chicken places, a few delis, a pizza shop or two, about two bakeries, and a Chinese food place. I think I got them all… Oh yeah, there are also about three restaurants and multiple corner stores. Unfortunately, over the summer another restaurant that was there burned down, so that cuts down on the list for now. And if you can walk one more block either way, there are even more places to add to the list.
I’m not complaining because it gives me choices to eat, but for people that can’t control themselves, it’s not hard to eat until you are fat and unhealthy.
I would put this story in the Bronx section of the Daily News, maybe in the ‘Eats’ section, but I don’t think this story would be important enough to be there. The best place a story like this would fit into is as a blog post.