Emily Keller-O'Donnell, Journalist

Disappearing Businesses Leave Many Tenants In the Lurch

    Residents of Walt Whitman and Raymond V. Ingersoll Houses are bracing for long walks through the snow this winter following a developer's shutdown of their neighborhood supermarket, ninety-nine-cent store, laundry and cleaning services. The business are being demolished to make way for a new development project on Myrtle Avenue from Flatbush Avenue Extension to Ashland Place, where the only remaining business is a Duane Reade drug store.

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Myrtle Associated Supermarket Closes Up Shop

    The ice cream and beer sold out first and the carrots and celery were among the last to go during a 50 percent off sale at an Associated Supermarket in Fort Greene that ended August 27 with the store's closure. The shutdown is part of a developer's afford to clear a strip of businesses on Myrtle Avenue to make way for a new development.

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