by Geoff Cobb 
Like many other Greenpointers, I heard the news of the closing of theĀ American DeliĀ (97 Franklin St.) with great sadness. The bodega has been a neighborhood fixture for the twenty-five years I have lived here and its closure is just another sign of the disappearance of the once vibrant Puerto Rican community in North Brooklyn.
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