![]() Saturday, March 2 Dinner, A Love Story, a cookbook tasting event at powerHouse in Park Slope. Advanced tickets for PHJB are sold out, but limited admission for $20 will be available at the box office at 6pm for the 8pm show. Sound familiar? At Brooklyn Bowl’s performance space, in the former Hecla Iron Works (circa 1882), you’ll hear great music, enjoy food from Blue Ribbon, and can even get in a round of bowling at one of the 16 LEED-certified lanes. PHJB Creative director Ben Jaffe is the son of the original founders, Allan and Sandra Jaffe, and has spearheaded programs such as the New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, dating to 1961, has a mission to nurture and perpetuate the art form of New Orleans Jazz. Don’t miss the one-and-only from New Orleans. Rolling Stone calls Brooklyn Bowl “…one of the most incredible places on Earth.”įriday, March 1 Preservation Hall Jazz Band performs at Brooklyn Bowl. In this neighborhood that values shopping locally, especially the Prospect Park West shopping strip, there is still a lot of concern that small-town friendly Ballard Pharmacy and Oak Park Pharmacy will be priced out of business by the Walgreens pharmacy. Next up: many residents have the means to shop at more upscale food businesses (Fairway, Union Market, Park Slope Food Coop, Fresh Direct, Trader Joe’s, an impending Whole Foods, even Costco) so Key Food will need to earn its reputation to be taken seriously. On February 21, the community received more positive news from Walgreen officials and Key Food corporate representatives that a hybrid space would be developed to include a “state-of-the-art” Key Food as part of the Prospect Avenue space. Citizen advocates, community leaders and local elected officials were initially rebuffed by corporate Walgreens, but pressure intensified to get the message heard. While the Windsor Terrace Key Food was bona fide awful to many, it was still important to this community of 12,000-enough, so that neighbors banded together to form Green Beans Not Walgreens, a grassroots resistance organization with the message that any Walgreens would be boycotted unless a sustainable fresh food market was worked into the plans. This story is being tagged co-working, grassroots, citizen advocacy, sustainable markets, neighborhood-supported small business. Both the landlord and Walgreens representatives refused to discuss the neighborhood’s desire to include a grocery store in any of the plans. Worse, the landlord then leased the space to pharmacy-giant Walgreens creating a dearth of local food shopping choices, along with potentially jeopardizing business at two well-liked local pharmacies. ![]() Back in June 2012, Key Food, the only viable, non-bodega supermarket in Windsor Terrace, suddenly closed, leaving residents without a full-service place to shop for food. We Were Heard Windsor Terrace Green Beans. PLUS: Red Hook Lobster Pound and Red Hook Winery will reopen on Friday too. ![]() ![]() Fairway has partnered with Restore Red Hook to continue supporting those hit by Sandy-the small businesses, residents, employees-and will match donations up to $20,000. Of course Marty is going to show up, along with performances by Brooklyn Dodger Symphony Band and an appearance by Brooklyn-based Miss America, Mallory Hytes Hagan. The feeling is quite mutual…and we can all celebrate starting at 8am as this foundation of the Red Hook community opens for business after four months of renovations and restoration after Sandy. (Photograph by Brooklyn Artisan Photo Pool.) Supermarket Newsįriday, March 1 Fairway Red Hook re-opening! “We love this neighborhood,” says Fairway’s website. Themed merch display at Brooklyn Museum’s store. ![]()
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