Deli owner looks to play ball in Yonkers
John Golden
Jul-05-09, 07:00 PM
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When Georges Kuri hung his new business sign over his New Main Street storefront in Yonkers, neighbors noticed. “Kuri’s Ballpark Deli,” it announces. There are baseball-themed sandwiches on the menu – Bush-Leaguer and Bench Warmer and Caught Stealing and Joltin’ Joe and Heavy Hitter among them – but not a ball park in sight in downtown Yonkers.
That only exists now in an architect’s drawings for River Park Center, the mixed-use development off Getty Square planned by Struever Fidelco Cappelli L.L.C. that includes a 6,500-seat minor league stadium directly across Nepperhan Avenue from the deli. The stadium looms in Kuri’s vision for his startup enterprise. Across the busy avenue, shuttered shops along New Main Street stand at the gates to the small-business owner’s field of dreams.
The sign went up about two months before the deli and caterer’s opening in the three-story rental building Kuri owns at 204 New Main St. “People would walk by and knock on the window: ‘Hey, is that ball park really coming? Do you know something we don’t?’” he said last week outside his 1,100-square-foot store.
“This almost in their eyes or their minds legitimized all the talk. People are excited about it in this area.”
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