Food Fight!!!! Whole Foods v. Food Coop and Stroller Heather v. Amy Sohn

The New York Observer has an article out this week on the prudes of Park Slope and whether we'll schlep our entitled, gentrified asse(t)s downhill to the scary, dirty, desolate, but newly non-toxic site of Whole Foods Gowanus.

It was only a matter of time before big-box brown rice capitalism landed in Brooklyn, which in the last four years has welcomed Fairway, Ikea and Trader Joe's. Whole Foods has opened six stores in New York since 2001, all in Manhattan. But proximity to Park Slope, the epicenter of purpose-driven, pseudo-suburban family life in Brooklyn, opens a whole new can of worms. Residents have so far staved off high-end retail, other than the odd boutique, despite being a branch office of Manhattan economically. One cannot even find a Gap in its increasingly lily-white environs. 

This is Park Slope Food Coop territory, after all. 

Brownstoner put up a link and the comments quickly started rolling in, 154 at last count (and I just had to restart because that fucking website crashed my laptop). Anyway, the comments stream morphed into a kind of awesome food fight between lovers and haters of the Food Coop, Whole Foods, Amy Sohn and the latest greatest new Park Slope celebrity (if I have anything to say about it, anyway)...STROLLER MAMA HEATHER.

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Whole Foods To Park Slope: It's On Like Donkey Kong

image via CurbedYep, it's official: Whole Foods in Gowanus is happening! Rejoice in the streets all you suspended Food Coop shift workers!

The store is gonna have a 20,000sf roof garden where they're going to grow their own locally produced and cruelty-free veggies. There's going to bike parking, an electric car charging station, a waterfront esplanade and probably a fucking vegan compost mosh pit for all we know.

Anyone wanna take bets on which will be finished first? Whole Foods or Atlantic Yards?

Here's the official release from Mark Mobley (of Whole Foods) to Craig Hammerman, the District Manager of Community Board 6:

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