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]
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Freaking self-righteous losers and hippies, all of you who judge what someone else does or how someone else shops. Get a life.
The retailers are FINALLY starting to catch on.
I read yesterday that the average retail per person in the U.S. is 22 square feet of retail per person.
In NYC, it is 6 square feet.
Not sure what took so long for retailers to realize this, but I think over the next few years we are going to see a SURGE in retail in Brooklyn.
Sure I could have taken the bus to get the parsley then it would have taken 2 1/2 hours.
Maybe the solution is more neighborhood amenities.
My fresh direct order was ALWAYS wrong and there was always at least one item which was expired.
I have banned them from my life.
Along with Starbucks.
Why do people drive so much in a city with such extensive public transportation?
I lived in Ft. Greene for six years and, you’re right, it does take organization. I tried the Pathmark, but that was the most disorganized grocery store I had ever encountered. Hence, I took to lugging groceries on the train, which really isn’t all that bad. If you enjoy good food, it’s worth the work.
Yes, I have children, so please, people, don’t try that approach when justifying use of a car.
Another complaint about Fresh Direct (while I am complaining) – forget about the idling trucks spewing greenouse gases, high food prices, mistakes, so so food which you never get to see before you buy…blah,blah) the damn trucks are LOUD and block traffic.
OK. I’m done. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and best wishes for good food in 2008
Please leave all the hairy armpit, Birkenstock wearing, baby breeders on the other side of Fulton. Fort Greene is going to do fine without a co-op. We have a farmer’s market and the Greene Grape Provision is opeining soon. I rather pay a little more for my food then have to deal with the political ideologies of fascism.
OK, I’ll take it. Once I wanted to make something and it called for parsley. You really needed the parsley for this and alas, I didn’t have any. Hey, no problem I thought — I’ll go to Key Food on 5th Avenue to get my parsley, since if there is parsley in the Associated it is at least 3 weeks old. So I get in the car to go to the Key Food, fight with the traffic over there, go in park my car, get the damn parsley, wait on a line for 20 minutes and then drive back home, drive around looking for a parking space and 1 hour later get home with my parsley. This is life in Fort Greene. Yeah, in retrospect I could have walked 15 minutes to and 15 minutes from the bodega near Greene and Layfayette, but I didn’t. It really is a royal pain in the ass, so you have to be pretty organized if you want to eat/cook like a real person who eats real food in Fort Greene.
So anyway, 12:28, I’ll take a Union Market.
You are right, it’s a start.
fresh direct is for lames. get up off your ass and shop local, jerk.