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Celebrities Boutique is a Former Cheetos Truck Turned Mobile Clothing Store in Harlem

02/21/2013
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    Bronx resident Nneka Green-Ingram is taking advantage of New York’s booming <a href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/free-fruit-fridays-go-healthy-new-yorks-food-truck-offers-free-fresh-produce/">truck storefront</a> frenzy, but instead of selling food, she’s serving up style on a platter. Having transformed an old Cheetos delivery truck into a mobile clothing store called Celebrities Mobile Boutique, Green-Ingram is providing the Harlem community with <a href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/event/launch-of-afias-premier-collection/" target="_blank">fashion</a> on wheels. So far, the response she’s received from local shoppers has been positive.
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  • NYC Mobile Fashion Boutique
    The boutique -- which sits on the highly trafficked <a href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/affordable-sugar-hill-housing-complex-aims-to-be-a-model-of-urban-renewal-in-harlem/">125th Street</a> between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard Thursdays through Saturdays -- offers an array of trendy costume jewelry, accessories, apparel and a small section of mens items.
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  • NYC Mobile Fashion Boutique
    While not your typical entry into the fashion industry, Green-Ingram, a current MTA employee, vended costume jewelry on 125th street before realizing she could mobilize her business in a safer and <a href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/new-report-shows-how-nyc-could-cut-a-whopping-90-of-emissions-by-2050/">warmer environment</a>
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  • NYC Mobile Fashion Boutique
    The boutique sits on the highly trafficked <a href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/affordable-sugar-hill-housing-complex-aims-to-be-a-model-of-urban-renewal-in-harlem/">125th Street</a> between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard Thursdays through Saturdays from 11am to 7pm.
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  • NYC Mobile Fashion Boutique
    Green-Ingram purchased the truck for $9,000 from a dealer in <a href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/amtraks-proposes-high-speed-rail-to-take-riders-from-ny-to-philly-in-37-minutes/">Philadelphia</a> and enlisted the help of her husband and his friend who installed the boutique’s shelves and wooden floors.
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  • NYC Mobile Fashion Boutique
    In addition to offering trendy accessories and apparel, the mobile fashion boutique also offers mens items. Customers also have the ability to try clothes on in a small fitting room.
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    Items in the mobile boutique range from a pair of gloves for $5 to a large metal necklace for $35.
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    "I would love to become a household name," Green-Ingram said to <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130221/central-harlem/city-bus-driver-runs-mobile-fashion-boutique-out-of-truck-on-125th-street">DNAinfo</a>, "so I can be an inspiration to others that they can accomplish their goals."
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Celebrities Mobile Boutique

Bronx resident Nneka Green-Ingram is taking advantage of New York’s booming truck storefront frenzy, but instead of selling food, she’s serving up style on a platter. Having transformed an old Cheetos delivery truck into a mobile clothing store called Celebrities Mobile Boutique, Green-Ingram is providing the Harlem community with fashion on wheels. So far, the response she’s received from local shoppers has been positive.

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