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Look Inside: Green Acre Farms - East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY

Green Acre Farms Owner:  Shri Persaud Opened:  1992 Cooperative:  Key Food and Retail Grocers Group Location:  1160 Utica Ave, East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  May 2019 Today we're taking a quick look inside this warehouse-style Caribbean supermarket on Utica Avenue, a major and (for what it's worth) very unpleasant to walk on thoroughfare through East Flatbush. Unlike Flatbush, Nostrand, or Church Avenues, Utica is primarily designed for drivers, while the others also have pedestrian-centered businesses lining both sides (and, therefore, few parking lots and so on). There are a few things that puzzle me about this approximately 8,000 square foot store. The first was taped to the front door -- a standard no photography sign which went on to elaborate that "all requests for photography must be made in writing to Key Food Stores Co-Operative, Inc., 1200 South Avenue, Staten Island, NY." Quite odd given that this store is not a Key ...