Park Slope Food Coop’s contested vote to boycott Israeli products earlier this week has actually removed Arab-founded products from the shelves, according to one of the business owners impacted. Rachel Simons, the founder and CEO of tahini brand Seed + Mill — one of the products impacted by the boycott — told The Post that … Read more
Park Slope Food Coop members approved a boycott of Israeli goods Tuesday night — following a years-long food fight that has turned vicious. Over 7000 of the co-op’s 15,000 members attended the meeting — which had to be shifted to Zoom only after Jewish attendees cited “explicit fears” for their safety if they attended in … Read more
The food fight over banning Israeli products from Brooklyn’s lefty Park Slope Food Coop is getting rotten — and members are saying a few bad apples are ruining the bunch. Longtime members have divided into factions — and Jewish shoppers say they have been subjected to threats of violence and intimidation for publicly opposing the … Read more
A community meeting at the lefty Park Slope Food Coop over a proposed boycott of Israeli goods erupted into chaos on Tuesday night after a member declared, “Jewish supremacism is a problem in this country,” and compared Jews to Nazis, according to a recording obtained by The Post. The vile remarks, which were made over … Read more
Park Slope parents may swear by Montessori toys and organic snacks — but come Halloween, it’s all plastic fangs and candy corn on the Brooklyn neighborhood’s tree-lined streets. And in this storybook version of spooky suburbia, where every stoop tells a tale and every shriek of laughter echoes off the brownstones, there’s one particularly haunted … Read more
Michael Ring was organizing a 100-mile bike tour in Putnam County in 2014 when he started falling, dropping things and tripping over stuff — it was happening so often that his then-boss took notice. “He took me aside and said, ‘I don’t talk about this, but I’m a cancer survivor. I’m saying that to scare … Read more
Libra author, straw hat enthusiast and father of new journalism Truman Capote maintained, “New York is not a city, it’s a world.” The roughly 340 neighborhoods found within this world, this sprawling, five borough constellation, are defined as much by their physical properties and energetic feel as they are the people who inhabit them. … Read more
From the secret swirls of lust and a mother’s guilt to navigating the world of open marriages, one Park Slope mother is bearing it all in a new memoir. Molly Roden Winter, 51, first delved into polyamory in 2008 after meeting a man named Matt in a bar after a hard day, when all she … Read more
At 4:45 p.m. Thursday, Carlos Sevilla and his date, Kriti Shrestha, finally secured a table for two at Masalawala & Sons. It was no easy feat. They’d been trying to snag one since September, when the Indian restaurant — with its Bengali dinner party atmosphere — first opened in a former Park Slope bakery and … Read more