But Maria Chicas, a 35-year-old cook at a nearby bodega, and her daughter, Maria, 4, died in their upstairs apartment.

The processed lard was not available at my Park Slope supermarket, but I scored it in a nearby bodega.

Diogenes Castillo, who owns a nearby bodega, said "I like to go to Queens.

A co-worker, John Freddy, had been shot on Feb. 8 as he sipped coffee in a nearby bodega.

Gossett said that when he emerged from the subway, he realized the fight was already starting, so he joined a crowd watching in a nearby bodega.

One of those people, Rafael Espinal, who had emerged from a nearby bodega, began taunting the man, witnesses said.

Friends said Tamiqua was at a nearby bodega about 3 p.m.

"To tell you the truth, I don't even really know where it is," said Anna Rosario, a city schoolteacher, as she shopped in a nearby bodega.

The owner of a nearby bodega offered free refreshments.

Later, the police learned that the liquid was beer, which the two youths had shoplifted from a nearby bodega, the police said.