fruit-12-07.jpgAccording 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]
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  1. What’s the point of badmouthing a co-op in FG/CH? If you don’t want to shop there, shop someplace else. Some of you are just looking for something to be against. It’s not like they’re going to shut down your beloved rancid meat retailer to open the co-op; there would just be another option. Why’s that so bad?

    Guaranteed, every thread, someone is whining about brownstone inflation or broker mendacity or auto owners or racism or gentrification or some shit. Bunch of fucking whiners.

  2. I live in ft. greene and I don’t want a food-coop here. 4:41 is right, park slope sucks and I don’t want my neighborhood to have anything in common with park slope. Bunch of tree-hugging, pot smoking, obnoxious, wealthy hippies. Damn slopers!

  3. I live in ft. greene and I don’t want a food-coop here. 4:41 is right, park slope sucks and I don’t want my neighborhood to have anything in common with park slope. Bunch of tree-hugging, pot smoking, obnoxious, wealthy hippies. Damn slopers!

  4. I live in ft. greene and I don’t want a food-coop here. 4:41 is right, park slope sucks and I don’t want my neighborhood to have anything in common with park slope. Bunch of tree-hugging, pot smoking, obnoxious, wealthy hippies. Damn slopers!

  5. I’d like to echo 10.04. I don’t care so much about a co-op (although i would join one if thats what opened, and i don’t necessarily need something high-end, but I am begging for some better groceries in Clinton Hill. PLEASE SOMEONE, OPEN SOMETHING UP IN CLINTON HILL. Something like the Fairway in Red Hook. The Met and Associated in CH are OK, but, they don’t really have fresh and varied produce and deli meats i’m looking for. I ried that farmer’s market where you pick up your allotment on a certani weeknight, and that really didn’t work out.

  6. I’d be surprised if DK Holland didn’t know this already, but the Park Slope Food Coop actually ORIGINATED in Ft. Greene, around 1970 or 1971. They had a spot on Myrtle sort of near where the SNAP office is up by Washington Park (which was still called Cumberland Ave. back then) and they also had a branch in the dorms at Pratt (which sucked. Tell me honestly, at 3 am when you have a deadline, which would you rather have? A rutabaga and some brown rice and chamomile tea or a can of coke and a butterfingers? Thought so.) I kept as far away from them as possible back in the day but I was a proto punk at that time, I just didn’t know it. I have proudly never owned a Birkenstock.

    They did move to Park Slope very soon after they were founded, I am not certain why but the crime environment in those days probably had a little to do with it.

    While I won’t use the Park Slope food coop largely because it’s in Park Slope, if they opened a branch here I’d be happy to participate. As long as all the members are Jogging Stroller 700 dollar italian eyeglass wearing ipod listening hipsters ; )

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