Peter’s Grocery Store on Madison Street in the Lower East Side was founded in 1947.

When we interviewed the 2nd-generation owner, Peter Migliorini in 2008 for our book “Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York” he told us that his father opened the shop “when the neighborhood was mostly Irish with some Italians and Polish immigrants and was largely residential. But over the years, many apartment buildings have been demolished and or converted into office towers.”

Sadly the lack of customers was one of the reasons Peter closed his grocery store just a year later in 2009. There has been a few different businesses occupying the #storefront in the past decade but none to us, have the charm of Peter’s with its gorgeous #handpainted signage and the 7Up insignias flanking each side.

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