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Business

South Slope Welcomes A New Grocery

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 (509 5th Avenue between 12th and 13th

Brooklyn Heights

Where to Order and Take-Out Food: Brooklyn Heights

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

Business

Fundraiser Launched For Locked Out Key Food Employees

PARK SLOPE – A GoFundMe campaign was recently launched to help Key Food meat department employees who have been locked out of their jobs for more than a month. L-R: Locked-out Key Food employees Leslie Carrier and Alexander Torres (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Created on May 3rd, the campaign was set

Business

Key Food Employees Remain Locked Out After 25 Days

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, the union representing the 38 Key Food meat

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Meat Department Workers Picket 5th Avenue Key Food

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

Boerum Hill

Where To Buy Valentine’s Day Flowers In & Around Park Slope

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

Cypress Hills

Grocery Checkout Fight Injures Elderly Woman

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

Business

Whole Foods Announces Opening Date For 365 Store In Fort Greene

FORT GREENE – A year after announcing it will debut the East Coast’s first outpost of Whole Foods Market 365 in Fort Greene, the supermarket chain revealed today that the official opening date of its value brand store will be Wednesday, January 31, 2018. Photo via 300 AshlandThe 40,000-square-foot

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Community Board Okays Avery Hall’s Plan To Build Key Food Site Higher

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 located at 120 Fifth Avenue. Brian Ezra, a Founding Principal

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[UPDATE] Bye Bye Key Food: Deal Closed, Construction To Begin This Year

Photo by BKLYNER[Updated: Monday, April 3 at 9:30am] City Council Member Brad Lander’s office released an announcement on Thursday, March 30 regarding the agreement reached with Avery Hall Investments on the Key Food site located at 120 Fifth Avenue. “The ‘Cooperation Agreement’ between AHI and the Community

Business

Bye Bye Key Food: Deal Closed, Construction To Begin This Year

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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From ‘It’s A Bodega!’ To 22K Square Feet, Grocery Store Footprint Expands For Key Food Site

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

Food & Drink

5th Avenue Key Foods Redevelopment Meeting Scheduled For November 1; Developer To Present New Plans

Rendering from early 2016 of new development at 120 7th Avenue via YIMBYThe Fifth Avenue Committee announced a community meeting to provide updates on the controversial development of the 120 5th Avenue Key Food property. The public meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 1 at PS 133 – William Butler

Business

Former Gowanus Pathmark Bustles With Construction Workers; Local Employees Say New Supermarket Is In The Works

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, neighbors and local activists both lamented and expressed major concerns over the dwindling of large, affordable supermarkets in

Business

We’ve Got The Scoop On What’s Going On At The Old Met Foods Building On Brighton Beach Avenue

Photo via Igor Libo.The old Met Foods building 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, which is currently

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We’ve Got The Scoop On What’s Going On At The Old Met Foods Building On Brighton Beach Avenue

Photo via Igor Libo.The old Met Foods building 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, which is currently

Business

Windsor Terrace Supermarket Suddenly Shutters, Adding To Affordable Grocery Woes In Area

Photo via Market Fresh SupermarketUpdated on Wednesday, August 17 at 3:47pm: Market Fresh Supermarket reopened on Wednesday, August 17. Read our article concerning the updates to the store. The sudden shuttering of Windsor Terrace’s staple supermarket, Market Fresh (282 Prospect Park West between Windsor Place and Prospect Avenue)

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Key Food Stakeholder Group And Developer Say ‘Constructive Dialogue’ Happening; Details Under Wraps

Rendering of new development at 120 5th Avenue via YIMBYThe 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 conversations concerning the highly controversial 5th Avenue Key Food

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5th Avenue ‘Key Food Fight’ Becomes Subject Of BRIC TV Mini-Doc

A recent segment on BRIC TV produced by Steve de Sève is an engaging and informative mini-documentary which tracks through the ongoing 5th Avenue Key Food development controversy that has been a major concern for community members in Park Slope, Gowanus, and its surrounding neighborhoods. “A lot of people say

Business

Pols Unite Behind Community, ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Key Food Site Development

Rendering of new development at 120 7th Avenue via YIMBYAfter a meeting in early February marked by both impassioned pleas and extreme exasperation by hundreds of community members in response to developer Avery Hall’s future plans for the existing 5th Avenue Key Food site, a platoon of local and

Business

Community Meeting Scheduled For February 9 To Address Controversial Redevelopment Of 5th Avenue Key Food Parcel

Photo by Park Slope StoopFollowing the announcement last November that a residential project would replace the current Key Food at 120 5th Avenue (at Sterling Place), members of the Park Slope community have been vocal in their opposition to the developer’s current plans. While the deal with developer Avery

Business

While 5th Avenue Key Food Could Be Lost, Pricey Union Market And Spinning Gym To Open New Locations At 342 Flatbush Avenue

342 Flatbush Avenue, future home of both Union Market and SoulCycle. (Photo by Park Slope Stoop)Are you ready for another high-end grocery store where you can get your gourmet cheese fix? How about a spinning gym that exists upstairs from that cheese which will offer a 45-minute class for

Business

Donate To Support Myrtle Avenue Programming Going Into The New Year

This past year, have you enjoyed participating in the Wallabout History Walking Tours this past year? Or seeing local seniors be able to take fitness classes designed for them? Do you want to partake of the Farragut Fresh Pantry as it continues in to the new year, and believe that

Business

Developer For 5th Avenue Key Food Site Says ‘Seriously Considering’ Grocery Store

Photo via Google MapsLast November, the community learned that Avery Hall Investments would be purchasing the 33-year-old Key Food — parking lot included — to develop a residential and smaller commercial space at the current 120 5th Avenue parcel. Avery Hall Investments spokesperson Ethan Geto has told us that the company is

Business

What’s Open and Closed in Ditmas Park this Week

Friday, December 25 is Christmas; if you plan to celebrate outside of Ditmas Park enjoy safe travels and good weather. If you’re sticking around the neighborhood, note that Christmas Eve, Thursday, December 24, is not an official city holiday, so all city government offices, including courts, are open. Here’