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

Photo via Market Fresh Supermarket [https://www.facebook.com/brooklynmarketfresh/photos/a.438121579706805.1073741828.438098556375774/438121539706809/?type=3&theater] Updated on Wednesday, August 17 at 3:47pm: Market Fresh Supermarket reopened on Wednesday, August 17. Read our article concerning the updates to the store [/blog/food/market-fresh-of-windsor-terrace-reopens-quelling-concerns-of-yet-another-supermarket-closure/] . The sudden

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

A recent segment on BRIC TV [http://bricartsmedia.org/community-media/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 [/blog/business/its-a-bodega-and-more-outcries-as-developer-presents-plans-for-5th-avenue-key-food-site/] that has been a major concern for community members in Park Slope, Gowanus, and

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

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 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 [/blog/business/scarce-affordable-grocery-options-with-potential-residential-project-on-5th-avenue-key-foods-site/] 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

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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

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Donate To Support Myrtle Avenue Programming Going Into The New Year

This past year, have you enjoyed participating in the Wallabout History Walking Tours [http://bit.ly/FREELocalTours] this past year? Or seeing local seniors be able to take fitness classes [http://bit.ly/InvestinLocalSeniors] designed for them? Do you want to partake of the Farragut Fresh Pantry [http://bit.ly/

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

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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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’

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‘Save The Fifth Avenue Key Food’ Advocacy Group Formed To Combat Property Purchase

Photo by Park Slope StoopAn advocacy group whose goal is to “keep affordable food for the community in the north Slope” was established over the weekend [https://www.change.org/p/jo-anne-simon-velmanette-montgomery-brad-lander-craig-hammerman-jesse-hamilton-community-board-6-bill-de-blasio-save-the-fifth-avenue-key-food-keep-affordable-food-for-the-community-in-the-north-slope?recruiter=451030674&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_res#petition-letter]

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Affordable Grocery Options Could Be Scarce With Potential Residential Project On 5th Avenue Key Food Site

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/

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Sooo Delicious Reopens As Middle Eastern Food Market

Photo by Abassi Middle Eastern Grocery [https://instagram.com/p/7p2jw1RmBn/]Many neighbors were disappointed when Sooo Delicious [/first-bite-bath-avenues-sooo-delicious-pan-ethnic-eatery-lives-name/] (1801 Bath Avenue) closed [/after-one-year-in-business-sooo-delicious-appears-to-have-closed-down/] earlier this summer. Well, now we bring you the good news! Owners Nick Abulawi and Sam Obeid, who owns Key Food across the street, were not

3100 Ocean Avenue

Fate Of Ocean Avenue Waldbaum’s Uncertain Amid A&P Bankruptcy

The Waldbaum’s at 3100 Ocean Avenue. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites) The fate of Sheepshead Bay’s Waldbaum’s is still uncertain. The 3100 Ocean Avenue location is not included on the list of stores slated to be closed or sold as part of the bankruptcy filing of the

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Gunman Opens Fire, Striking Two, At Coney Island Housing Project

The shooting occurred across the street from the Gravesend Houses on 2753 West 33rd Street. (Source: Google Maps)Two men were struck — one of them a senior citizen — in a shooting that neighbors described [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/06/14/coney-island-double-shooting/] as “an ongoing drug war” near a Coney

325 Lafayette Avenue

Permit Requests Filed To Begin Structural And Other Work At 325 Lafayette Avenue Key Food

The past week has seen a flurry of permit requests [http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/PropertyProfileOverviewServlet?boro=3&houseno=325&street=lafayette+avenue&go2=+GO+&requestid=0] filed to the Department of Buildings (DOB) by developer Slate Property Group, Aufgang Architects and various contractors of the

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Park Slope Trends Report: Babies Out, Baby Bananas In

Photo by PINKÉ [https://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02/4092746959/]Okay, maybe babies are still popular in the neighborhood, but according to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal [http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-time-ripe-for-baby-bananas-1420833771?autologin=y] , baby bananas may be inching their way past them in preciousness.