NYC’s only black-led food co-op sets its sights on a storefront
Central Brooklyn residents have launched an online fundraiser to open a community-owned grocery store catering to communities of color.
Central Brooklyn Food Coop — which claims to be “one of the only urban Black-led food cooperatives in the nation and the only one in New York City” — will launch an online fundraising effort through Kickstarter on Wednesday to raise the initial capital — $25,000 — to expand into a brick-and-mortar location in the summer of 2020.
The food co-op launched six years ago to ensure access to affordable and fresh food to the low- and moderate-income communities of Central Brooklyn, most of which are communities-of-color.