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PARK SLOPE – A GoFundMe campaign was recently launched [https://www.gofundme.com/pick-quick-key-food-employees?member=2172406&utm_source=twilio&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=contacts-v2-invite-to-donate&fbclid=IwAR19x8ZSwP96oKr0qtvd6IlJ3EqGQjkUMvJXNuSTMfBaHdsvwZNGbjx_koo] to help Key Food meat department employees who have been locked out of their jobs for more than a
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PARK SLOPE – Drivers on 5th Avenue honked their horns Tuesday afternoon to show support for the dozens of union members picketing in front of Key Food supermarket (120 5th Avenue). Picketers in front of Key Food, 120 5th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) Employees of Key Food’s meat departments
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PARK SLOPE – After receiving the okay to increase the height of its project at the KeyFood site at 120 Fifth Avenue last year [/community-board-okays-avery-halls-plan-build-key-food-site-higher/], Avery Fisher Hall Investments (AHI) said it hoped to begin construction in Spring 2018, pending approval from the Department of City Planning. Photo by BKLYNERSpring has
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Rendering of new development at 120 5th Avenue via YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/02/park-slope-key-food-developers-unveil-details-for-120-fifth-avenue-at-contentious-public-meeting.html] The Park Slope Key Food Stakeholder Group — a convergence of neighborhood community organizations as well as local and citywide politicians — released a joint statement today with developer Avery Hall Investments saying that
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Rendering of new development at 120 7th Avenue via YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/02/park-slope-key-food-developers-unveil-details-for-120-fifth-avenue-at-contentious-public-meeting.html] After a meeting in early February marked by both impassioned pleas and extreme exasperation by hundreds of community members [/blog/business/its-a-bodega-and-more-outcries-as-developer-presents-plans-for-5th-avenue-key-food-site/] in response to developer Avery Hall’s future plans for
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Community members raise their hands when asked if they shop regularly at Key Foods. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)With vitriol and a huge helping of old-fashioned chutzpah, members of the community stuffed an auditorium at PS 133 – William Butler School [http://ps133brooklyn.org/] to weigh in on
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Photo via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6789752,-73.9787201,3a,75y,297.02h,95.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7IrJkdDQZiU7Lo8vF5m7EQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en] Last November, the community learned that Avery Hall Investments would be purchasing the 33-year-old Key Food [/blog/business/scarce-affordable-grocery-options-with-potential-residential-project-on-5th-avenue-key-foods-site/] — parking lot
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Photo by Park Slope StoopOne of the largest grocery stores in Park Slope could become a residential and smaller commercial space if Avery Hall Investments [http://www.averyhallinvestments.com/] buys the current Key Food parcel at 120 5th Avenue (at Sterling Place). DNAinfo reports [http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20151130/