Food Co-op Planned for Ft. Greene/Clinton Hill?
According to The Brooklyn Paper today, a couple of Park Slope Food Co-op devotees are looking to open their own food co-op in Fort Greene or Clinton Hill. Kathryn Zarczynski, the Clinton Hill-based operator of the website guiltfreeshopping.com, and DK Holland, a Slope Co-op member who lives in Fort Greene, are frustrated with the lack…
According to The Brooklyn Paper today, a couple of Park Slope Food Co-op devotees are looking to open their own food co-op in Fort Greene or Clinton Hill. Kathryn Zarczynski, the Clinton Hill-based operator of the website guiltfreeshopping.com, and DK Holland, a Slope Co-op member who lives in Fort Greene, are frustrated with the lack of affordable or high-quality grocery stores in the area (Holland calls the Atlantic Center Pathmark a pit). The general manager of Park Slope’s Co-op, meanwhile, says there are hundreds of Clinton Hill/Fort Greene residents who use the Slope Co-op. Seems to us like Zarczynski and Holland’s idea would probably be a big success—does anyone know if it’s more than just talk and whether the duo has been scouting locations? Also, what would the impact on the Park Slope co-op be if a chunk of its members had an alternative on the other side of Flatbush?
A Food Co-op of Their Own? [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by arimoore.
Dk Holland is the landlord for Oleas’s. If she really gace a rats ass she would use that as the coop.
Holy shit. So I just went to Union Market in Park Slope for the first time ever. I was visiting a friend in the neighborhood and stopped in to get cheese and crackers. HOW UNDERWHELMING!! The way people on this site have been talking about Union Market, you’d think it was Zabar’s or something. Shocking! It is tiny, has limited variety of the few things it stocks, and is expensive. You people are EASY.
I dont think a new coop will really compete w/ Park Slope Coop. PSC’s prices are partially a function of low real estate costs (they own I think). It passes its savings along to members.
A new Coop will have to compete w/ the big boys paying $60/ft. Higher rent means the tomatoes will cost more.
5:52 – Those are definately tomatoes, they just look like apples due to their organic nature. Far inferior to the delicious and just as healthy genetically enhanced tomatoes you are probably used to.
Organic ones are typically deformed, discolored and bug infested, with rot marks. You can tell by the big bulging one in the front with a huge brown streak down the center that they are definately organic tomatoes.
I would welcome a co-op in Clinton Hill. I don’t need expensive, gourmet-just fresh, reasonably priced. Fairway is a hike though I love it. If the co-op comes I’m there.
Happy Holidays from a happy member of the PSFC…who lives in FG…
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays!
Great holiday food shopping at the coop! OMG!
the park slope food co-op is not hurting for members. i know that for sure.
i really don’t understand the hatred for the neighborhood. it seems to get so intense on this board and it makes no sense to me.
park slope is a really nice neighborhood. one of the best around.
there are lots of other great ones also. this is nyc. all the neighborhoods are great and contribute to the fabric of this amazing city.
how about appreciating that once in a while.
people who’ve chosen to raise children in a city are not trying to be snobby. they are just trying to do their best.
do a little shopping…
Yes, 11:34 AM,
The coop has so many members that often we don’t really have much to do during the shift. A lot of people use part of their time to shop depending.
Yes, it would be nice if the shift time were shortened or the frequency dropped down to less than once/month. It’s complicated to work these things out and keep it equitable (remember, shifts are every 4 weeks which divides the year up evenly) and coherent (if the shifts are 2 or 1.5 hours long, there may be way too much coming and going/shift changes…)…who knows…
BY THE WAY…
I NOTICED IMMEDIATELY THIS MORNING LOOKING AT THIS THREAD THAT THE PHOTO IS OF APPLES AND THE SIGN PICTURED IS FOR TOMATOES…
GO FIGURE…GENETIC ENGINEERING?