Streetlevel: Natural Food Store Opening on 4th Avenue
While it probably won’t be a substitute for the Whole Foods that will never get built nearby, a new natural food store is replacing a run-of-the-mill bodega at the northeast corner of 4th Avenue and St. Mark’s Place, reports Gowanus Lounge. A positive step for Brooklyn’s Park Avenue? Natural Food Shop Opening on Fourth Ave….
While it probably won’t be a substitute for the Whole Foods that will never get built nearby, a new natural food store is replacing a run-of-the-mill bodega at the northeast corner of 4th Avenue and St. Mark’s Place, reports Gowanus Lounge. A positive step for Brooklyn’s Park Avenue?
Natural Food Shop Opening on Fourth Ave. [Gowanus Lounge] GMAP
I live very close to this place. I popped in the other day, and it’s a solid meh. Good to have nearby if I need something in a pinch (the other bodegas on 4th are terrible), but that will probably be rare. The best bodega in the area – for food, amenities and beer – has to be Slope Food Market on Bergen & Flatbush, right by 6th Ave. I wish they opened up a place on 4th.
Back when it was Perri’s it was actually pretty good, but then the new people with the funny shirts purchased it, and it really went to hell. The new regime it at least clean, but no beer, and crappy bread, so I have my doubts.
ew that is terrible. a bodega without beer? that is total blasphemy. i do hate having to walk from my place to my fav. bodega on 4th ave for mine but i refuse to buy over priced beer in the fauxdegas on 5th avenue. and what is up with the kinds of beer they stock anyway? it’s ALL the same! i swear they just stick different kinds of colorful stickers on them every week and make up ridiculous names like Reindeer Hat and stuff.
*rob*
This bodega SUCKS. I live around the corner, and I miss my old corner store.
Why doesn’t anyone sell BEER!!!!
All of these corner stores are owned by the same Muslim brothers who refuse to sell beer! WTF!
This opened over the weekend – yet to go as last week’s gallon of milk (from the new Dean Deli – 4th and Dean) is still good. Happy there is something again on the corner – the 5 weeks w/o Perry’s was torture.
Yes, there are a lot of bodegas, but economies of scale is in full effect in these parts (if the bodegas weren’t profiting, they wouldn’t last). True, the whole “natural” movement is a scam for higher prices, but I’m not willing to go out of my way for tp or eggs or milk… I know my laziness translates into paying more, but there’s a price on my time!
Want low prices? Go to Costco.
that’s true 11217. im not hating on it, i welcome it. im sure it’s better than what it’s replacing.. if it’s even replacing anything. my FAV bodega is the one right outside the R train stop on union street and 4th avenue. OE 40 ounces are only 2.50!!!!! those are seriously like 1999 prices, kidding not! the only thing i dont like about that bodega is that it’s super tiny and you cant move around and there are always rude people in line with a sheet of lotto numbers that take forever for the guy to punch in. where do these people with missing fingers, eye patches, sweat pants that clearly look like theyve been peed in, get all this money to play so much lottery!?
*rob*
A lot of these new businesses on 4th are catering to the hundreds (maybe thousands?) of new people moving into the condo’s on 4th.
When it comes to bodega’s, it’s all about convenience and people don’t want to walk more than a block or three for a gallon of milk.
hmmm…there is a “natural” or organic grocery store on the corner of St. Mark’s and 5th Avenues, then one on Flatbush and 6th (about 3 blocks away). That’s a lotta competition.
no sorry, it’s a fauxdega, much like all the ones on 5th avenue as well (and yes i shop at those too when im too lazy to go anywhere else). the whole lipstick piggy comment whatever it is is very apropros for these generic places popping up all over.
*rob*