Oddities in the city, even Massimiliano’s newsstand has closed, in via Molfetta, in Quarticciolo

So almost all of the newspaper kiosks are closing Massimiliano’s newsstand in via Molfetta is no exception. The closure of the newspaper kiosk in via Molfetta al Quarticciolo, however, deprives us of a smile, help, information, a kind gesture that we can reciprocate.

Above all, it takes away the human side, because the closed kiosk will remain in place, it will not be removed like the old telephone booths and their large payphones.

Unfortunately, many other stores are also slowly closing neighborhood: stationers, hardware stores, art galleries, grocery stores, tobacconists.

Before Massimiliano’s newsstand, a tobacco retailer had closed at number 7 in via Molfetta, subsequently the grocery store had closed “Loreti” in via Molfetta 22, which is on the sidewalk in front of the newsstand.

The three business closures are mine “oddities in the cityà” of today, since they were commercial establishments located in a sort of small square, which is not a small square, in a a place where the identity of a neighborhood still resists: Quarticciolo.

Small commercial activities should be adequately protected, being very useful for the territory, for other small artisanal activities, for the families of residents. We experienced their usefulness during the Covid period, but we forgot about it.

The operators in the area are the good morning and good evening for the survivors of everyday life, who are people, especially elderly people, who are not familiar with the speed and convenience of the Internet.

There are those who say that I am not “modern”, that I don’t look to the future.

I, who go around the neighborhoods of Rome looking for small and old shops, reply that I’m not old, I’m just “vintage”, and then we will talk about it again when desertification is more radical and our streets are perhaps frequented by unpunished gangs of minors.

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