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Article: Appetite for change on Delaware Avenue: Expansion of venerable Cardona's Market points to revitalization of area.
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- Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 12, 2007
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Byline: Kate Gurnett
Jan. 12--ALBANY -- Does Delaware Avenue have a tipping point? That day when the street tilts away from its tattered storefronts and paint-chipped porches and careens, unstoppably, toward funky galleries and hip eateries?
Anthony Cardona thinks so.
Last fall, his family, which owns Cardona's Market, knocked down the house next door and doubled its Italian grocery-bakery-deli to lend a gourmet air to the block near Bertha Street.
Cardona's has been a neighborhood staple, where you grab a copy of "America Oggi (America Today)" newspaper or watch grandfather Augusto Cardona, 92, roll meatballs behind the counter. ...