As the Coop matured into a full-fledged grocery, the city raged. Crime in the early ’70s was at an all-time high, and continued to climb through the ’80s.

A kale shortage incites widespread panic. A 4-year-old melts down when his parents won’t buy him dried papaya spears. And members debate natural childbirth while bagging nuts. It’s tale… ...

The members of the Park Slope Food Coop rejected 1005 to 653 the following proposal: "We propose that the Coop hold a referendum to decide whether we will participate in the international Boycott ...

Anyone living in New York, or at least in the hipper parts of Brooklyn, has probably heard of the Park Slope Food Coop, which was founded by a cadre of left-leaning gourmets in 1973 and has since ...