But many of the stores that Stop & Shop has converted within the last four months hardly seem bustling with shoppers.
"Knots Landing," the fictional California neighborhood where one of my guilty-pleasure prime time soaps from the 1980s was set, seems a bustling metropolis by comparison.
Two thousand years ago, it seems, a bustling metropolis, called Aratikos, sat atop that hill, only to be destroyed by invading Romans.
Any money saved throughout the year has been spent during the December holidays, and when January comes around it seems like this bustling port town goes into sunlit hibernation.
Meanwhile, neighboring restaurants seemed to be bustling.
Aside from the bodies, life in the streets seemed normal, even bustling.
The wood-paneled confines of J.G. Melon, a bar and restaurant on the corner of Third Avenue and 74th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, always seem to be bustling.
On some level, it's not hard to see why these people and their checkbooks have gravitated toward this venture — the lure of a private space in cities defined by their hustle and bustle seems like a hard one to resist.
I fleetingly and selfishly wonder if it was for our benefit (my friend and I are the only two non-Bengalis in the restaurant), but then I notice other diners cackling as their attention drifts away from their companions and toward the on-screen antics.By the time we leave, night has fallen, and the street seems livelier and more bustling.
A couple of nights after my stop at Donna's, I ventured across the Mississippi River to the residential Algiers Point neighborhood, where the city's bustle seems far away.
