Park Slope Food Co-op

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Snippets of conversation at a grocery store.

Members of the co-op in Brooklyn, bastion of high ideals and low prices, have issues with the pension fund for its employees.

The Windsor Terrace Food Coop is expected to open on March 21 in Brooklyn, which has become a hotbed of small co-ops in the last few years.

Organizers of food cooperatives talk of unifying communities and bringing healthy options to low-income neighborhoods, but cultural barriers and resentment can make that message a hard sell.

The Park Slope Food Co-op is a communal operation that seemingly operates on a higher plane, yet shoplifting is a growing problem there.

About a dozen former bungalow communities have become co-ops, attracting a new crowd from New York City’s brownstone precincts.

In a letter written on behalf of the co-op, a letter was written calling on Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to “take a leadership role” to save Long Island College Hospital, or LICH.

Free weekend activities in New York City will include readings at Poets House and the Park Slope Food Co-op and bike lessons at Bldg 92.