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“ATLANTIC AVENUE — Atlantic Fruits & Vegetable “ATLANTIC AVENUE — Atlantic Fruits & Vegetables, a popular produce market at 181 Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn Heights (two storefronts west of Sahadi’s), recently shut its doors after almost two decades of selling fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs and packaged goods. 

The one-story brick building, owned by store proprietor Ki Yol Kim, will be demolished and replaced with a four-story mixed use development, with retail on the ground floor and six one- or two-bedroom apartments upstairs.”

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