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Desiree Mathurin

Neighborhood Reporter

desiree@denverite.com @dez_am

Desiree Mathurin is Denverite's neighborhood reporter. She previously worked for the Associated Press in Atlanta, Newsday in New York and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Desiree is a native New Yorker but ready to tell local stories featuring local people here in Denver. Follow her on Twitter @Dez_AM.

Ed and Marv have been eating at the Breakfast Inn on Evans Avenue for 30 years. Virginia Village, Jan. 26, 2022.

Breakfast King may be gone, but Denver diners carry on. Here are some of our favorites.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!

The Little Saigon Supermarket in the Far East Center on South Federal Boulevard. Feb. 25, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

She’s not a grocery store expert, but she did create a list of mom-and-pop markets so you can avoid supply chain issues at big brands

Grocery shopping is becoming a feat.

The King Soopers on Krameria Street in Montclair. Jan. 21, 2022.

Denverites return (or continue) shopping at King Soopers after strike ends

The parking lots were full of cars instead of picketers.

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A single banana in the produce section of the Safeway at Broadway and Alameda on January 18, 2022.

Safeway and other grocers see bare shelves as King Soopers strike pushes shoppers elsewhere

Supply chain issues aren't helping either.

All of the 3,124 wrecks that took place on Denver streets with speed limits 25 miles per hour or lower in 2021, outside of downtown. There were 329 more in the Central Business District and Union Station neighborhoods that year.

So how many traffic “accidents” occured on Denver’s neighborhood streets in 2021? This many

Numbers show it's low-key scary to drive, ride or walk in Denver.

A modular ADU and garage installed behind Simple Homes co-founder and COO David Schultz, July 9, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Can you use your ADU as a short-term rental? Yes, and that’s sort of the point.

But only about 16% of ADUs are being used as short-term rentals.

Harley the horse walks on an aquatic treadmill for physical therapy inside Colorado State University's new Spur Campus at the National Western Center in Elyria Swansea. Jan. 11, 2022.

Globeville and Elyria-Swansea residents are burnt out on projects they say don’t benefit them. But there is hope for CSU’s Spur campus.

“I think this is a game-changer for the neighborhood."

Black birds fly over uptown. Sept. 1, 2021.

All those crows will remember you, so be nice

Crows just wanna have fun.

Mourners pay their respects outside Denver's Sol Tribe Custom Tattoo and Body Piercing, on Broadway at 1st, on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021.

Businesses on Broadway, a ‘tight-knit’ community, mourn the loss of ‘block mom’ Alicia Cardenas, Alyssa Gunn-Maldonado

"We are one tribe."

Robin Cothley, with Denver Indian Health and Family Services, prepares a Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine during the talking circle at Governor's Park. June 10, 2021.

Denver’s mask mandate has been extended to February

City officials say hospitalizations and cases have steadily risen and masks will help mitigate the spread.