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]
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