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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I agree with you about Fresh Direct, Donatella.
I find it overpriced and just ok.
I did hear Union Market is opening in Ft. Greene though. It was initially a rumor, but I believe a confirmed one at this point…
Pricey, but gorgeous food.
It’s a start.
Fresh Direct is very nice as a theory, but in practice it is expensive and not that great. They regularly make mistakes, charge a 5 dollar surcharge and of course, you have to tip the guys. I go to Fairway, which I love, but it is a trip from Fort Greene (and during the week, I also have to deal with losing my parking space at night..boo hoo.). Where I am in Fort Greene, shopping is horrible. There is an Associated, which makes you want to cry – grey chicken, expired food, antique fruits and vegetables and then a bunch of Yemeni bodegas, which are actually OK for a quart of milk or something you ran out of but certainly not a place to go food shopping, unless you live on twinkies or cheese doodles.
There is definately a market for a nice green grocer and/or supermarket in the area. I don’t know about DUMBO but in Brooklyn Heights, the Peas and Pickles has decent produce and sells nice fish. One poster is right – there is plenty of good food money in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill from residents – new and old. I don’t have any enthusium for a food coop, just a good store, for Chrissakes.
because the food co-op doesn’t DEPEND on trucks to make deliveries.
and most people picking up their groceries aren’t driving 5 mile per gallon tanks to the food co-op. and then leaving them sit idled pouring smoke into the air and leaving behind tons of boxes, which they don’t take back to recycle.
any other questions?
Some of us find more fun in interacting with people in non-shopping or working environments.
What I don’t get is, if Fresh Direct is evil for all of its truck deliveries, how can the coop responsibly accept members who have to drive to pick up their food?
fresh direct is for lazy people.
some of us still like to shop, leave our homes and interact with other human beings.
Organic tomatoes will be worthless once AY is built.
the food coop is dumb. order from fresh direct.
Has anyone else noticed that everyone in New York smokes pot these days?
you just named all of my favorite things, 11:45.