The Last Bread
Los Sures
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7m 23s
Directed by Maria Rosa Badia • 2013 • United States
After seventeen years in business, the family-owned La Villita Bakery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was forced to close its doors, a victim of rising rents and rapid gentrification. Chronicling the final days of this beloved establishment, THE LAST BREAD captures the death of yet another small business in an increasingly homogeneous New York City.
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