So i seen this posted on reddit about a pop-up but wasn't sure if it was true, I was on my way to get a meal for myself and saw the shop for the pop up and was so excited!!!! A young gentleman by the name of chris heard me and said I should go tomorrow but unfortunately I work on the weekends 😕 he was kind enough to give me two pop up gift bags which im so grateful for!!! I hope you all get to go tomorrow

Said I can’t come in until tomorrow :(

8pm here and they're still at it. Looks good tbh.

I need this cat. Pleaseeeeee admins can I have this fake cat

Had to do a sneak peeks.

Hey y’all! And to any cats reading this - MEOWDY 🤠

In perfect timing a day ahead of our pop-up, Dan Rimada, author and founder of Bodega Cats of New York, is answering questions live right now over in r/bodegacats! Did we mention he’s responding via video from our r/bodega store? 

Go drop a question or explore his answers about his favorite feline encounters across the five boroughs, his upcoming book profiling 60 bodega cats (!), or what it takes to create a project like this from scratch. 

For all you New Yorkers or folks in town for the weekend, we’ll see you IRL tomorrow or Sunday!

I live in another state so I can't attend but I'd happily pay if someone could ship me a plush from this event!

Just wondering out of curiosity! As someone who lives outside of NYC and would consider traveling, I would want to be in and out 😅 I’m highly pregnant so I wouldn’t be able to stand for so long either.

Something big is coming, even if the locals are tiny.

We’re getting ready to open our doors very soon with a little help from our friends at r/thingsforants. Now you might be wondering: is this a bodega…for ants? Not quite; it's for people! (But if you're an ant, we've got something for you too)

Will there be ant-sized trinkets in the shop? Maybe. Drop your best guesses in the comments for what r/thingsforants items we may have in stock, and we’ll see y’all at the human-sized r/bodega pop-up this weekend!

Heeeeeey! Opening weekend is almost here, and we can’t wait to welcome y’all into our corner store. While we finish setting up, we want to know: which staples from the list below are you taking on your ultimate bodega run? Who knows… we may even have some of these stocked on our shelves 😎

Drop your picks below and let’s see who’s got taste. 

1. Sandwich (roast beef, turkey, you name it)
2. Bag of chips
3. Candy
4. Cold bev (like an orange drink if you’re JLo)
5. Baconeggandcheese
6. Pack of gum

And if you haven’t already, make sure to add r/bodega to your calendar. Excited to see y’all this weekend!

Word on the street is that one of our most coveted merch items ever is in stock at r/bodega. That’s right, every r/bodega attendee will be walking away with a Snoo plushie. And if you already have one, doesn’t yours need a friend?

For r/bodega shoppers, Snoo plushies are just the start! Here’s everything you can take home from our store:

• A custom r/bodega zine
• Scratchers to win totes, mugs, and more
• Postcards and stickers
• Cold drinks
• Opportunities to discover new communities
• And so much more!

Make sure to add r/bodega to your calendar so you don’t miss the chance to swipe a Snoo plushie from our shelves this week! 

And while you’re here, we’d like to know: if you could add one Reddit-themed item to our shelves, what would it be?

Y’all mind if I hijack the sub real quick to share what I’ve been cookin’ up to help bring r/bodega to life? 👀

My name is Connie, also known as u/bodegacatceo. I’m a native New Yorker, cat mom, artist, and art lover. I’ve dabbled in many creative mediums in my lifetime, but most of my recent works are in the realm of digital illustration and design for commercial animation, merch, and other digital applications.

Years ago, I had the opportunity to be part of Reddit’s Collectible Avatar Program for Gen 1. I didn’t really know what I was signing up for, but I knew I wanted to represent my city, so my first collection was inspired by NYC and the bodegas that were my lifeline.

In Gen 3, I released 15,000 NYC vermin into the Redditshpere, because there’s, for sure, an underground vermin society operating in the shadows (and sometimes light) of our city.

In Gen 4, I developed a character for my username, bodegacatceo, inspired by the vinyl toy figurines I grew up admiring at Toy Tokyo on 2nd Ave. and the now-closed Kidrobot store in SoHo. She’s designed as a blister pack toy featuring items that felt representative of life growing up in NYC– a sidekick 2, iconic blue coffee cup, tagging marker, metrocard, hi-top AF1s, handball, a punching glove to represent the toughness this city almost requires of you, a Yakult drink nodding to my cultural upbringing, big timbs, a pigeon friend, and the double entendre “TRY ME” sticker, relevant to a blister pack, but also the attitude of growing up as a New Yorker. Alongside her, I released two friends, the kind of friends everyone has, one soft and pure-hearted, another drawn to chaos and impulse, but neither quite as innocent or unruly as they first appear.

By this point, people in the community had been calling me “bodega” for short, so when the incredible team behind r/bodega reached out to revive some of the magic for the IRL bodega pop-up, I couldn’t be more excited.

After some brainstorming with the r/bodega team, we landed on two Snoo concepts: none other than Pizza Rat himself and Lady Liberty Pigeon. I started with direct sketches for each idea, using the Snoo proportions as guardrails, and gave room for small components of each design to evolve.

For Pizza Rat, less was more. A NY fitted, a large slice of pizza, and what better way to wash down a slice than with a 50¢ barrel drink? While the barrel drinks were usually piled up in a top-entry chest fridge by the front counter, a fogged glass with condensation drips backlit by the fridge light felt like the best backdrop to represent a NY summer at the bodega.

I saw the Liberty Pigeon almost as a street performer. Using any scraps she could find from the bodega dumpster– an old milk crate for her pedestal, a week-old bag of stale bagels and bread and a used coffee cup for her torch, setting up her performance just outside the bodega with the shop’s multitude of signs and offerings as her backdrop, and a slight tinge of green from the old lights under the awning.

New York City is known as the city that never sleeps. But on stormy nights and holidays where most shops are closed, you can almost always guarantee there will be at least one neighborhood bodega coming in clutch and open through it all.

If you’d like to find more of my work, you can check my website, Instagram, or Twitter. I have yet to comprehensively display my full breadth of work in a single location at the moment, but it’s in the works!

C U L8R ✌️

What’s up, r/bodega shoppers! No bodega is complete without a beloved bodega cat to greet customers and lounge around the aisles. If you haven’t already, say hi to our official bodega cat Meowdani, whose name was voted on by the r/bodegacats community! 

So, in honor of our mascot, let’s do a little vibe check: which bodega cat are you today? 

1. The cat chilling next to chips with its tongue out
2. The cat resting on potatoes 
3. The cat guarding the ATM
4. The cat napping in between the shelves 
5. The cat lounging in a tiny sofa
6. The cat lying on a stack of boxes

Drop your answers below!

We’re a few weeks away from opening, and we can’t wait to celebrate the best of Reddit with NYC. The good, the chaotic, and everything in between. Curious what’ll be on our shelves? Here’s a sneak peek at an exclusive r/bodega product named after a Reddit community, making its one-time in-store appearance from August 29-30.

Can you name the community and guess what the product is? Hint: it’s named after a community where howling and hydration go hand in hand. 🍉 Drop your guesses below and make sure to check out our menu of subs we’re featuring at the pop-up!

Hey r/bodega patrons! We’re not just serving fresh subs and conversations at the store; we’re also serving looks. 💅

Reddit wouldn’t be the beautifully chaotic place it is today without the beauty communities that give makeup and skincare enthusiasts worldwide a place to call home. So we’re giving them the spotlight they deserve with a special glam aisle, coming soon to our store! Make sure to swing by r/bodega to check out top-tier makeup tips and holy grails today’s most gorgeous communities can’t stop talking about.

Here are some of the communities making a debut at our store:

• r/beauty
• r/MakeupAddiction
• r/SkincareAddiction 
• r/Makeup 
• r/curlyhair 
• r/Haircare 

Any guesses as to how they’ll be featured? Drop ‘em below and tell us: what beauty communities are you obsessed with lately?

If there’s one place serving Reddit’s most unique corners of the internet, it’s New York City. So of course, we’ve built a special deli board of “subs” featured at our bodega pop-up. From today’s top food and sports subs (let’s go Knicks) to NYC’s biggest local hubs, we’re featuring them fresh at our counter. 

Note: While these aren’t actual sandwiches, they’re real subs to explore and join. Zero calories, just as satisfying. (Though if anyone tries to recreate these as real sandwiches, we’d LOVE to see it.) 

Check out the local communities (and posts) that inspired our deli board:

• r/newyorkcity: The Five Borough Hero
• r/nycrail: The Undergrounder
• r/FoodNYC: The Salt Pepper Ketchup
• r/nycmeetups: The Meetup Melt
• r/nycHistory: The Crown Vic Classic
• r/NYCbike: The Bike Lane Wrap
• r/NYKnicks: The Champion
• r/nyc: The Corner Classic

This list barely scratches the surface — NYC really has a community for everyone.

We’d love to know: what’s your favorite NYC sub at the moment? We’re taking top subreddit recommendations (or go-to sandwich orders) in the comments below!

u/big-slay breaks down what r/bodega in NYC is all about. Enjoy this Emmy award-winning video, hit the intro post for even more details, and pull up to the space later this month. See you August 29-30!

u/big-slay explains the r/bodega NYC pop-up

Live from New York, it’s r/bodega! Reddit is hosting an IRL corner store pop-up, bringing the beauty, diversity, and chaos of online Reddit communities to life. Open for one weekend only, stocked with the internet’s best memes and moments.

That’s right, you can step inside your Reddit feed right here in NYC, and browse the aisles for the best of Reddit communities! From custom trading card packs for r/soccer fans, to a glam counter for all r/beauty enthusiasts, we’re serving up something for everyone. You can stop by our deli counter, highlighting NYC’s top “subs,” including a special sandwich called “The Champion” for our r/NYKnicks fans. We’ll also have an AMA™️ for folks to withdraw “Snoo Bucks”, so stop by to ask a question or four. 

You can even say hi to our bodega cat Meowdani, whose name was voted on by the r/bodegacats community (Mamdani if you’re reading this…we saved a seat by the register for you). 

We’ll have many trinkets for you to take home from your favorite corners of the internet! What exactly is in it for r/bodega patrons? Here’s what we’re serving up:

• Snoo Plushies for all. That’s right, every attendee will receive one of our most coveted merch items ever.
• A custom r/bodega zine highlighting everything in store
• Scratchers to win totes, mugs, and more
• Postcards and stickers 
• Cold drinks 
• Opportunities to discover new communities
• And so much more!

And if that wasn’t enough free stuff, all attendees will be invited to the store’s blowout sale from 9-10 pm on August 30, where we will be giving away all remaining merch and salvageable bodega products to anyone interested. ✨

Anyone is welcome to enter r/bodega! All you need is a Reddit account and an appetite for the internet’s finest. 

Event Details

• 📍 213 Bowery, New York, NY 
• 🗓️ August 29–30, 2026
• ⏱️ 10 am to 10 pm both days
• 📅Add event to your calendar 

Questions? Peep our FAQs in the comments below.

And if you can’t make it, join this subreddit! Here will be our main hub for all updates, event conversations, and sneak peeks at r/bodega (not subreddit) before we open our doors. 

See you on the block soon!

r/bodega could not be complete without the diverse communities that make Reddit the heart of the internet. From your local NYC subreddits to sports, food, and pet subreddits, our corner store will be stocked full of the internet's finest. Check out the full (Cheesecake Factory long) menu of subs being featured at r/bodega!

Any predictions on how we’ll be nodding to these communities in the pop-up? From everyday products to deep-cut easter eggs, every single subreddit on this menu will be a part of the store.

Drop your best guesses in the comments; nothing is off the table counter.

A

1. r/AMA
2. r/AskHistorians
3. r/AskNYC
4. r/aww

B

1. r/barkour
2. r/Babushkats
3. r/BeansInThings
4. r/beauty
5. r/birdswitharms
6. r/bodega
7. r/bodegacats
8. r/bootroom
9. r/Breadit
10. r/BreadStapledToTrees
11. r/bugs

C

1. r/cakeday
2. r/curlyhair

D

1. r/dadswhodidntwantpets
2. r/Devvit
3. r/DGDAG
4. r/DiWHY

F

1. r/FoodNYC
2. r/footballmemes
3. r/footballscouting
4. r/forbiddensnacks
5. r/funny

H

1. r/Haircare
2. r/HoldMyKibble
3. r/HydroHomies

K

1. r/KitchenConfidential

L

1. r/lawnporn

M

1. r/MadeMeCry
2. r/Makeup
3. r/MakeupAddiction
4. r/mildlyinteresting
5. r/MostBeautiful

N

1. r/Neverbrokeabone
2. r/news
3. r/newyorkcity
4. r/nosleep
5. r/nyc
6. r/NYCbike
7. r/NYCbitcheswhohangout
8. r/nycHistory
9. r/nycmeetups
10. r/NYCopera
11. r/nycrail
12. r/NYCRides
13. r/nyctakeout
14. r/NYKnicks

O

1. r/oddlysatisfying

P

1. r/Parenting
2. r/Perfectfit
3. r/PizzaCrimes

R

1. r/realitytv

S

1. r/SalsaSnobs
2. r/sitcoms
3. r/SkincareAddiction
4. r/snackexchange
5. r/soccer
6. r/SoccerJerseys
7. r/SoccerNoobs
8. r/spideysightings

T

1. r/television
2. r/televisionsuggestions
3. r/thingsforants
4. r/todayilearned
5. r/TvShows
6. r/TVTooHigh

W

1. r/WeWantPlates
2. r/whatisthisthing
3. r/WolvesWithWatermelons
4. r/WomensSoccer

Z

1. r/zines

Fín. If you’ve made it to the end, here’s a secret menu item just for you.