Everything Store R.I.P.
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52 Years
C&N EVERYTHING STORE was located on E.161st Street by Elton Avenue in the Morrisanaia section of the Bronx. It is a family-owned business run by Cobert and Novil Seward that has been in operation since 1956.
The sign is the original one taken from our old store on 165th Street and Teller Avenue. We moved to this location in 1977 because the landlord raised the rent so high at the other store that we were forced to move. My husband and I ended up buying this whole building so that would never happen again to us. We took with us all our shelving, cabinetry, and merchandise so the inside of the store still looks very much like it did in 1956 except that maybe it’s a bit more crowded with merchandise now. We literally sell everything in here from candy to pipe-fittings. We are open 7 days a week, every day of the year except for Christmas Day. I really don’t have a most popular item, I just sell what I can. We used to sell more food items like milk and eggs but business is slower now so I don’t stock perishables anymore and I’ve cut back on the amount of newspapers I carry. I used to sell every New York paper including the New York Times but now I only carry the Daily News and the Post because they are the only ones that let me buy only a few a day, otherwise you’ve got to buy in bulk and I can’t afford that. I’ve been in this neighborhood so long that I’ve watched many of my customers grow up and now some of them even bring in their grandchildren. I know most everybody by name and I treat all of them like family. One of the biggest things happening in this neighborhood lately is that there’s lots of new construction. I don’t know who can afford the rents they are charging. Most of these new buildings are empty and you’d think the owners would lower the rents instead of them staying empty but I guess they’d rather leave them unoccupied. If we didn’t own this building we would have been out of here long ago.
Novil Seward, owner of C&N Everything Store
Everything Store R.I.P.
More: www.urbanimagephotography.com in the blog
52 Years
C&N EVERYTHING STORE was located on E.161st Street by Elton Avenue in the Morrisanaia section of the Bronx. It is a family-owned business run by Cobert and Novil Seward that has been in operation since 1956.
The sign is the original one taken from our old store on 165th Street and Teller Avenue. We moved to this location in 1977 because the landlord raised the rent so high at the other store that we were forced to move. My husband and I ended up buying this whole building so that would never happen again to us. We took with us all our shelving, cabinetry, and merchandise so the inside of the store still looks very much like it did in 1956 except that maybe it’s a bit more crowded with merchandise now. We literally sell everything in here from candy to pipe-fittings. We are open 7 days a week, every day of the year except for Christmas Day. I really don’t have a most popular item, I just sell what I can. We used to sell more food items like milk and eggs but business is slower now so I don’t stock perishables anymore and I’ve cut back on the amount of newspapers I carry. I used to sell every New York paper including the New York Times but now I only carry the Daily News and the Post because they are the only ones that let me buy only a few a day, otherwise you’ve got to buy in bulk and I can’t afford that. I’ve been in this neighborhood so long that I’ve watched many of my customers grow up and now some of them even bring in their grandchildren. I know most everybody by name and I treat all of them like family. One of the biggest things happening in this neighborhood lately is that there’s lots of new construction. I don’t know who can afford the rents they are charging. Most of these new buildings are empty and you’d think the owners would lower the rents instead of them staying empty but I guess they’d rather leave them unoccupied. If we didn’t own this building we would have been out of here long ago.
Novil Seward, owner of C&N Everything Store