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Nasri Mujalli (center left) and Danny Hamdan (center right) cut the ribbon on their new South Slope grocery. Ellie Plass/ Bklyner.Park Slope’s 5th Avenue welcomed a brand-new grocery store this morning. By the time the ribbon at Key Food Urban Market [https://urbanmarketparkslope.com/] (509 5th Avenue between
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We, like you, are still trying to figure out how to navigate this new reality we’ve found ourselves in. There are a lot of uncertainties, but one thing we know for certain is that we love our local restaurants and we want to support them in any and all
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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 – After another round of negotiations on Tuesday, April 30, dozens of Key Food employees remain locked out of their jobs. Locked-out Key Food employee Leslie Carrier (L) and Local 342 organizer Denis Henry (R) (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Local 342 [https://local342update.com], the union representing the 38
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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 – Valentine’s Day is Wednesday. If you’re planning to surprise your Valentine with a beautiful bouquet of flowers but aren’t sure where to go, we’ve put together a list of shops in and around Park Slope where you can order in advance or pick up
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The Cypress Hills Key Food where the fight took place, on Crescent Street near Fulton (Screenshot via Google Maps)CYPRESS HILLS – When a fight broke out in line at the Key Foods in Cypress Hills last month, two men injured an elderly bystander as they tussled. Now, police are looking
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FORT GREENE – A year after announcing it will debut the East Coast’s first outpost of Whole Foods Market 365 [https://www.365bywholefoods.com] in Fort Greene, the supermarket chain revealed today [http://media.wholefoodsmarket.com/news/whole-foods-market-365-fort-greene-to-open-january-31] that the official opening date of its value brand store will be
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Photo by BKLYNERAt a Community Board 6 Landmarks and Land Use Committee meeting held Thursday evening at PS 32, board members voted to approve an increase to the height limit in the plans for the Park Slope Key Foods site [/update-bye-bye-key-food-deal-closed-construction-to-begin-this-year/] located at 120 Fifth Avenue. Brian Ezra, a Founding
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Photo by BKLYNER[Updated: Monday, April 3 at 9:30am] City Council Member Brad Lander’s office released an announcement [http://bradlander.nyc/news/updates/agreement-reached-for-neighborhood-supermarket-affordable-housing-at-5th-avenue-key-foo] on Thursday, March 30 regarding the agreement reached [/bye-bye-key-food-deal-closed-construction-begin-year/] with Avery Hall Investments on the Key Food site located at 120 Fifth Avenue. “The
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Key Food, 120 Fifth Avenue (Photo by Nathan Haselby)One of the largest developments on 5th Avenue in Park Slope is getting closer to becoming reality: Avery Hall Investments has finally sealed the $45 million deal to acquire the site of Key Food property, Real Deal reported yesterday. Avery Hall’
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Michelle de la Uz, Executive Director of Fifth Avenue Committee [L] and Council Member Brad Lander detail the revised proposal of the development. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER)The night was about community consensus and square footage. And both increased significantly in the same room that had an extremely different
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Rendering from early 2016 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] The Fifth Avenue Committee announced a community meeting [https://www.scribd.com/document/327933993/Key-Food-11-01-16-Meeting-Flyer-Final#from_embed] to provide updates on the controversial development of the 120 5th Avenue
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The former Pathmark in Gowanus could become a new supermarket. Aisles remain empty on October 7. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)When the Pathmark in Gowanus closed in November 2015 [http://thebrooklynink.com/2015/12/02/54539-scenes-from-a-closing-a-pathmark-says-goodbye/] , neighbors and local activists both lamented and expressed major concerns over
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Photo via Igor Libo.The old Met Foods building [/?s=met+foods] at 100 Brighton Beach Ave has been vacant for four years, and work has finally begun to turn it into the grocery and convenience store that the neighborhood lost when Met Foods left in 2012. The new store,
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Photo via Igor Libo.The old Met Foods building [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/?s=met+foods] at 100 Brighton Beach Ave has been vacant for four years, and work has finally begun to turn it into the grocery and convenience store that the neighborhood lost when Met Foods left in