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People are reading all kinds of things into the opening of a Whole Foods store in Tribeca. "'It's a sign of our maturity as a community,' the president of the Alliance for Downtown New York, Elizabeth Berger, said." So what did the opening of a 7-11 signify for the community, then? [NY Sun]