Myrtle Supermarket Opening in Late Summer
It’s been a long road, but the supermarket on Myrtle and Ashland, on the Andrea site, is finally happening, and it’s scheduled to open late this summer. Last night we missed the community meeting, but we spoke with State Committee Member Lincoln Restler, who co-hosted the event with Councilwoman Tish James and the Red Apple…
It’s been a long road, but the supermarket on Myrtle and Ashland, on the Andrea site, is finally happening, and it’s scheduled to open late this summer. Last night we missed the community meeting, but we spoke with State Committee Member Lincoln Restler, who co-hosted the event with Councilwoman Tish James and the Red Apple Group. He said there were over 100 residents there, mostly from the nearby low- and middle-income housing developments. Construction has begun on a ground-floor CVS, a small cafe, and the below-ground supermarket. Those attending gave feedback on issues like affordability, local hiring and food choice. There are no other Red Apple Supermarkets in New York, but Committee Member Restler tells us “it will offer a more affordable price point to meet the needs of working families in Fort Greene.” And after pressing him that this was actually happening, he promised “definitely…. finally this is going to be built.”
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I’m missing how the factual part of this story — that a Red Apple grocery store will open on this site — reflects poorly on Tish James. If you think it is a very bad development, and that she should be encouraging other stores to open on the site, okay. Otherwise, sounds unremarkable to me.
There is no question that this site requires an affordably-priced grocery store. I have no idea whether Red Apple will serve that need: chain stores are notorious for high pricing in poor neighborhoods (in other words, offering poor food, poor service AND poor value). We’ll have to wait and see.
“I guess that kind of dedication to public service” ?????? Tish gets a nice 6 figure paycheck. I’m fairly certain that is what she is dedicated to.
“All I see is a smart, educated woman who could have easily been a partner in a big firm by now” This statement borders on delusional.
John Catsimimitis, owner of this site, also owns Red Apple AND Gristedes. He changed all the Red Apples to Gristedes when he bought Gristedes. So the identity of this tenant is no surprise.
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i would never shop at an associated. they suck and i’d rather pay more to support small business owners vs. supporting a chain.
oh whatever, if you wanna go there then i will, i will support stores like Associated because they employ just as many people (if not MORE) than overpriced gourmet shops. Also how is a single owner of a franchise all that much different than having a grocery store with a quirky pretentious name? there isnt. oh that’s right, maybe cuz non snootbags shop/work/and own these supermarkets. hells, they don’t deserve jobs, ownership, and affordable produce right?
give me the Associated checkout girls anyday over some snarly surly gourmet grocer cashier.
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i’d rather pay more
NEWSFLASH! some people CANT! or simply just dont want to! get off your high horse, jeez.
*rob*
Trolley Dodger, Tish’s district is much bigger than that, and her constituents more varied than poor folk in 3 large projects and the rich folks on the Hill. The “transient renters” who have been there for years might take issue as well. Absurd.
“Encouraged to show up at polling houses in their buildings”? I didn’t realize Fort Greene was an outpost of Chechnya or Syria, and people were herded into polling places to “vote” for the one candidate. That’s actually quite a libelous statement, with nothing to back it up.
I read her Wiki bio. All I see is a smart, educated woman who could have easily been a partner in a big firm by now, or a CEO somewhere, but has chosen to become a public advocate in the city she grew up in. I guess that kind of dedication to public service only means something if your politics lean to the right or you look like a Kennedy. Anything else means she has some kind of sinister “political convictions.”
Tish James has a district that includes three huge projects with voters encouraged to show up at polling houses in their buildings. The other voters are often more transient renters in Ft. Greene and Clinton Hill. If you think Tish James advocates for the emerging Middle Class in Brooklyn, you’re kidding yourself.
Read the Tish James biography on wikipedia. Any common sense will tell you what her political convictions are.
Rob, I wouldn’t trust meats and produce in a Gristedes type market, they’re usually miserable foodstuffs
I wash/peel my produce before I eat it to get rid of most pesticides.
I have yet to see a scientific article on the health benefits of organic produce, and even organic advocates do not seem to push the heath benefits too much.
I understand the health arguments for organic meet and dairy much more, although I still rarely spend the extra money for organic.