Erie, PA-This photospread takes you on a visual tour of Erie’s small businesses along State Street, organized in the order you would explore them on foot.
A Charming Bakery: Starting at the corner of West 4th and State Street, The Ye Ole Sweet Shoppe, which provides delicious baked goods. Their most popular items, their cookies, come in 24 different varieties. This bakery has been a loved business of Erie for many years, opening 30 years ago. Its interior recently expanded, is decorated as charming and fun old time candy shop with tables and seating. (Kiley Williams)
Community and Coffee: Across the street, a coffee shop owned by Gannon Alum, Ember & Forge. This shop provides quality coffee and is a cozy place for students and other people to do work (Kiley Williams)
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The Erie Art Scene: Up the street a bit, is the Erie Art Museum. Its ancient Greek inspired exterior has grand columns and triangle pediment. The inside of the building displays exhibitions celebrating a wide range of art including some by local artists. The Museum provides a space for people to explore and gain inspiration (Kiley Williams)
Radiant Welcome: The beautiful front door of the Glass Growers Gallery found up in the street towards The Erie Art Museum. The doorstep of the entrance of the shop radiating colorful sunrays inviting people in (Kiley Williams)
Vibrant Glass Art: Sunray lights up the colorful glass pieces inside of the Glass Growers Gallery. Many different art pieces are displayed in the shop from ceramics, paintings, jewelry, and glass art available for purchase (Kiley Williams)
Tasteful Bistro: Across State Street, is the delightful Bakery on Fifth, that sells unique Turkish and French delicious baked goods, coffee, and tea. This new bakery that opened last spring provides a quaint place to get Sunday breakfast with friends and family (Kiley Williams)
A Culinary Melting Pot: A little further ahead is the Flagship City Food Hall, which is a great place for people to go when you are indecisive about what to eat as it includes seven different local kitchens. The restaurants serve many different types of food ranging from Dominican, Asian, Mexican, Italian, and classic American food (Kiley Williams)
NYC‘s Baked Wonders: With in the Flagship City Food Hall, is Jo’s Brooklyn Bagels which is arguably the best place to get a bagel in Erie, Pa. The shop includes a variety of different types of bagels such as Cinnamon Raisin Bagel, Plain Bagel with Strawberry Cream Cheese and the classical everything bagel (Kiley Williams)
Traditional Italian Kitchen: Another shop in the food is ippa Pizza Napoletana, a bar restaurant that is known for its Wood-fired Neapolitan pizza. When you are done eating pizza at the establishment you can get tasty homemade gelato for dessert (Kiley Williams)
Purrfect Place for Coffee: A beloved local business of Erie, the Purrista Cat Cafe, a cozy and chic place to get quality coffee. The entrance of the shop offers cozy seating for customers to socialize with friends or to work on schoolwork while watching the cats play in an adjoining room (Kiley Williams)
Whisker Wonderland: At a small cost, you can enter the cat room to play, pet or just look at the cats. In the room, there are many cat toys, swings, scratching post and a little house for the cats to feel at home. The cats in the cafe are available for adoption and over 300 cats have been adopted (Kiley Williams)
Kiley Williams is this academic years Photographer for The Gannon Knight. Kiley is a junior biology major from St. Mary’s PA. A fun fact about Kiley is that she can drive a forklift.
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