Farmacy's Vague Reopening
We mentioned a week ago that Vermont Market and Pharmacy, rechristened Brooklyn Farmacy, was going to hold its reopening bash on Saturday. But then, The Brooklyn Paper reports, the store remained closed Sunday and Monday. Mark Stein, whom the paper describes as a reclusive owner, inherited the store from his father in 1992 and ran…
We mentioned a week ago that Vermont Market and Pharmacy, rechristened Brooklyn Farmacy, was going to hold its reopening bash on Saturday. But then, The Brooklyn Paper reports, the store remained closed Sunday and Monday. Mark Stein, whom the paper describes as a reclusive owner, inherited the store from his father in 1992 and ran the store for one year before closing shop. There was one other business attempt at the location, but otherwise the storefront at Henry and Sackett streets has remained shuttered—until recently, when one of Stein’s residential tenants pressured him into reopening the store as Brooklyn Farmacy, an exercise in nostalgia with a soda fountain and products like a tin of Sucrets from the ’80s, but also with organic, local produce and goods. It’s unclear why the store closed after its reopening party, and Stein himself doesn’t know what will happen to the store.
A One-day Reopening for Vermont Market [Brooklyn Paper]
Henry St Pharmacy Reopening as a ‘Farmacy’ [Brownstoner]
Photo by jeanphony
The Brooklyn Farmacy is opening today thanks to the Discovery Channel show Construction Intervention. We posted a pretty extensive article on it with lots of pictures today on our blog. Enjoy: http://hyperakt.com/play/?p=1943
there’s not much in the way of shops on this stretch and i don’t think that one should expect too much from the space it sounds like the landlord got pressured into renting out the space and the people taking it over don’t seem particularly into providing much of a service for the neighborhood. it looks to be more of someone’s vanity project. that said, i would love to be proven wrong and see something good come out of the space.
For some reason the fundraisers (this was the second) seem to be attracting a lot of hippie douchebags. Not sure why.
Actually, I spoke to one of the guys who ran the event. He said that he would be doing some special fundraisers, like the lobster night, but that the store was not going to open with a regular schedule (like a real store!) until the spring. So nothing has really changed. PS: There was some sort of meeting going on in there Monday night.