{"id":821,"date":"2025-10-28T15:25:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=821"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:25:59","slug":"park-slopers-rally-after-steves-9th-street-market-abruptly-closes-urge-affordable-grocery-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2025\/10\/28\/park-slopers-rally-after-steves-9th-street-market-abruptly-closes-urge-affordable-grocery-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Slopers rally after Steve\u2019s 9th Street Market abruptly closes, urge affordable grocery replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/park-slope-rally-steves-9th-street-market-closes\/\">BrooklynPaper<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 By Gabriele Holtermann | Published October 1, 2025<\/p>\n<p>After serving the Park Slope community for decades, Steve\u2019s 9th Street Supermarket between 5th and 6th avenues, shuttered permanently on Sept. 30 with little notice to the community.<\/p>\n<p>News of the abrupt closure of the supermarket sparked concerns among Park Slope residents, who worried the shop might be replaced with luxury housing, leaving them without a local affordable grocery store. At a packed community meeting at the Park Slope Public Library on Sept. 30, Assembly Member Robert Carroll and Council Member Shahana Hanif addressed community concerns about the future of the now-vacant commercial spot, the loss of accessible and affordable grocery options, and rumors of high-rise condos and air rights<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Hanif said there is currently no evidence that the property had been sold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as we know, I have not seen any zoning application that would make me think that the owners are trying to change the zoning; change from commercial to residential,\u201d Hanif noted. \u201cI checked today as well to see if the owners filed anything. Nothing yet. Steve\u2019s is a commercial zoning. So if they were to sell and change the zoning, it would come to the City Council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hanif &nbsp;told the crowd that, based on conversations she had with store employees, sales had declined significantly, and the supermarket owner was behind on rent.<\/p>\n<p>[See full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/park-slope-rally-steves-9th-street-market-closes\/\">here<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/park-slope-rally-steves-9th-street-market-closes\/\">BrooklynPaper<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 By Gabriele Holtermann | Published October 1, 2025<\/p>\n<p>After serving the Park Slope community for decades, Steve\u2019s 9th Street Supermarket between 5th and 6th avenues, shuttered permanently on Sept. 30 with little notice to the community.<\/p>\n<p>News of the abrupt closure of the supermarket sparked concerns among Park Slope residents, who worried the shop might be replaced with luxury housing, leaving them without a local affordable grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2025\/10\/28\/park-slopers-rally-after-steves-9th-street-market-abruptly-closes-urge-affordable-grocery-replacement\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}