Shopping in Providence
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Friends Market
Immediately south of College Hill is Fox Point, the waterfront neighborhood where the city’s substantial Portuguese population resides. Though gentrification has taken place with influxes of Brown University professors and students and artists from RISD, you can still find an old-world style grocery like the Friends Market tucked in among the trendy coffeehouses, salons and galleries. Most activity in Fox Point centers on Wickenden St with its restaurants, art supply store, incredible eyeglass shop (Gregory’s Optical) and several home-furnishing boutiques.
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Tony’s Colonial Food
Among the most colorful of Providence’s neighborhoods is fervently Italian Federal Hill (when Tony Soprano’s crew needed a special job done, they came here to enlist the aid of a geriatric, blind hit man). It’s a great place to wander, taking in the aromas of sausages, peppers and garlic from neighborhood groceries such as Tony’s Colonial Food. Many of Providence’s best restaurants are on Atwells Ave, a street you can easily identify by looking for a large, floodlit pineapple suspended from a concrete arch spanning the traffic below.
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Risd|Works
RISD maintains several fine galleries. A design showcase is risd|works, a shop displaying an assortment of goods (jewelry, photographic prints, flatware, coffee tables, children’s books) made by faculty and alumni.
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Map Center
If you want more maps than the visitor’s center can provide (some local, some esoteric) as well as a small selection of guidebooks, try this center.
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