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January 15, 2009

Streetlevel: Natural Food Store Opening on 4th Avenue

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While it probably won't be a substitute for the Whole Foods that will never get built nearby, a new natural food store is replacing a run-of-the-mill bodega at the northeast corner of 4th Avenue and St. Mark's Place, reports Gowanus Lounge. A positive step for Brooklyn's Park Avenue?
“Natural Food” Shop Opening on Fourth Ave. [Gowanus Lounge] GMAP




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ugh. another fauxdega?! these stores are even bigger rip offs than regular bodegas. the organic and "natural" things they sell are totally scams. the only thing these fauxdegas have going for them is that they normally dont smell like cat pee.

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at January 15, 2009 2:06 PM

will cornerbodega now be fauxdega???

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 15, 2009 2:08 PM

I've been fascinated by how many stores on Flatbush, 5th, 6th, and now 4th Avenues manage to get the word "Natural" or "Nature" into their name.

I keep meaning to put together a photo album of all the store fronts... perhaps someone with more time than I can pursue this noble goal. I would suggest trying to capture some nearby garbage in every photo.

Posted by: northsloperenter at January 15, 2009 2:16 PM

the kids who worked at the old place where funny and always made my laugh.

I guess "Natrual" is the new "Delicatessen"

Posted by: Santa at January 15, 2009 2:18 PM

hahahhaha seriously, northslopeparenter ahhah

*rob*


Posted by: PitbullNYC at January 15, 2009 2:20 PM

This is not a 'fauxdega' - these guys also have a store on 5th ave straight up the block, and i often go there when I can't make it to the food coop - yes it's more expensive, but it's good overall. i welcome the new store to our hood.

Posted by: lee_maison at January 15, 2009 2:20 PM

I welcome it also, and prefer to wait till stores actually open and I try them first before trashing them.

Posted by: 11217 at January 15, 2009 2:30 PM

in 50 years when someone is tearing this sign down someone will bitch about how it needs to be persevered.

Posted by: Santa at January 15, 2009 2:46 PM

no sorry, it's a fauxdega, much like all the ones on 5th avenue as well (and yes i shop at those too when im too lazy to go anywhere else). the whole lipstick piggy comment whatever it is is very apropros for these generic places popping up all over.

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at January 15, 2009 3:14 PM

hmmm...there is a "natural" or organic grocery store on the corner of St. Mark's and 5th Avenues, then one on Flatbush and 6th (about 3 blocks away). That's a lotta competition.

Posted by: tiptoe at January 15, 2009 3:16 PM

A lot of these new businesses on 4th are catering to the hundreds (maybe thousands?) of new people moving into the condo's on 4th.

When it comes to bodega's, it's all about convenience and people don't want to walk more than a block or three for a gallon of milk.

Posted by: 11217 at January 15, 2009 3:25 PM

that's true 11217. im not hating on it, i welcome it. im sure it's better than what it's replacing.. if it's even replacing anything. my FAV bodega is the one right outside the R train stop on union street and 4th avenue. OE 40 ounces are only 2.50!!!!! those are seriously like 1999 prices, kidding not! the only thing i dont like about that bodega is that it's super tiny and you cant move around and there are always rude people in line with a sheet of lotto numbers that take forever for the guy to punch in. where do these people with missing fingers, eye patches, sweat pants that clearly look like theyve been peed in, get all this money to play so much lottery!?

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at January 15, 2009 3:45 PM

This opened over the weekend - yet to go as last week's gallon of milk (from the new Dean Deli - 4th and Dean) is still good. Happy there is something again on the corner - the 5 weeks w/o Perry's was torture.

Yes, there are a lot of bodegas, but economies of scale is in full effect in these parts (if the bodegas weren't profiting, they wouldn't last). True, the whole "natural" movement is a scam for higher prices, but I'm not willing to go out of my way for tp or eggs or milk... I know my laziness translates into paying more, but there's a price on my time!
Want low prices? Go to Costco.

Posted by: Bklynight at January 15, 2009 3:48 PM

This bodega SUCKS. I live around the corner, and I miss my old corner store.

Why doesn't anyone sell BEER!!!!

All of these corner stores are owned by the same Muslim brothers who refuse to sell beer! WTF!

Posted by: SAINTMARKSJEFF at January 15, 2009 4:03 PM

ew that is terrible. a bodega without beer? that is total blasphemy. i do hate having to walk from my place to my fav. bodega on 4th ave for mine but i refuse to buy over priced beer in the fauxdegas on 5th avenue. and what is up with the kinds of beer they stock anyway? it's ALL the same! i swear they just stick different kinds of colorful stickers on them every week and make up ridiculous names like Reindeer Hat and stuff.

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at January 15, 2009 4:15 PM

Back when it was Perri's it was actually pretty good, but then the new people with the funny shirts purchased it, and it really went to hell. The new regime it at least clean, but no beer, and crappy bread, so I have my doubts.

Posted by: carfreenation at January 15, 2009 9:17 PM

I live very close to this place. I popped in the other day, and it's a solid meh. Good to have nearby if I need something in a pinch (the other bodegas on 4th are terrible), but that will probably be rare. The best bodega in the area - for food, amenities and beer - has to be Slope Food Market on Bergen & Flatbush, right by 6th Ave. I wish they opened up a place on 4th.

Posted by: dwarbi at January 16, 2009 11:39 AM

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