Eagle Provisions
VANISHED
After more than 75 years in Greenwood Heights, the Polish grocery store Eagle Provisions closed last week.
One More Folded Sunset was there and took a look inside.
photo: One More Folded Sunset
The Brooklyn blogger writes of the emptied space: "Pope John Paul II remains on the wall, a benevolent presence above the deli counter, and a single, skinny, length of kabanos hangs alone amidst Christmas tinsel. Farther along the wall, you can still see the portrait of John, Richard & patriarch Szczepan Zawisny, taken in earlier years, which shows them surrounded by the fruits of their labor - a glorious bounty of sausage and ham."
This time, it wasn't about rising rent. It was about people getting tired, and struggling to keep pace with a changing neighborhood.
“We’ve adapted as much as we could,” co-owner John Zawisny told Brooklyn Paper last year. “But there’s only so much you can do.”
In a Times story yesterday, Vivian Yee wrote about Eagle Provisions and other Brooklyn businesses "calling it quits" in the changing city: "After decades of anchoring their neighborhoods, these business owners have found that they no longer quite belong."
2014
After more than 75 years in Greenwood Heights, the Polish grocery store Eagle Provisions closed last week.
One More Folded Sunset was there and took a look inside.
photo: One More Folded Sunset
The Brooklyn blogger writes of the emptied space: "Pope John Paul II remains on the wall, a benevolent presence above the deli counter, and a single, skinny, length of kabanos hangs alone amidst Christmas tinsel. Farther along the wall, you can still see the portrait of John, Richard & patriarch Szczepan Zawisny, taken in earlier years, which shows them surrounded by the fruits of their labor - a glorious bounty of sausage and ham."
This time, it wasn't about rising rent. It was about people getting tired, and struggling to keep pace with a changing neighborhood.
“We’ve adapted as much as we could,” co-owner John Zawisny told Brooklyn Paper last year. “But there’s only so much you can do.”
In a Times story yesterday, Vivian Yee wrote about Eagle Provisions and other Brooklyn businesses "calling it quits" in the changing city: "After decades of anchoring their neighborhoods, these business owners have found that they no longer quite belong."
2014
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