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Cheap Meat or Luxury Rentals?
The newly reopened Western Beef in Queens. Photo: Peter Castellana, Jr. The crown jewel in the Castellana family real-estate empire is a 20,000-square-foot Queens warehouse wedged between a Home Depot and a row of mom-and-pop appliance stores. For five decades it was a busy grocery store that offered cheap staples as well as specialty ingredients for the neighborhood’s Asian and Latino residents: dumplings, seaweed, chayote. As the flagship store of Western Beef, its once-orange exterior and its grinning mascot, Charlie the cactus, made it one of the most conspicuous businesses on College Point Boulevard. But in August 2018 it abruptly closed. When I visited the building last summer, spray paint…
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48 Cheap Home Improvement Products That Save You From Having To Buy Expensive Stuff
Sometimes, your home just needs an upgrade. Whether you want to fix the little things around the house or completely transform its aesthetic, there are a million different ways to make your home look refreshed or brand new. However, while it’s easy to whip out the tools or a can of paint, many ideas for home improvement can oftentimes run up a high price tag or require too much of your precious time. That won’t be the case with the help of the Amazon products on this list, though. With that being said, you don’t have to give up on all of your home improvement goals. Fortunately, there are ways…
