JULY GM: PLASTIC USE AT THE COOP, A LOTTERY SYSTEM FOR NEW MEMBERS AND MORE
September 8, 2026 By Jess Powers On the muggy evening of July 28, 107 Coop members attended the General Meeting despite the looming threat of rain. Lisa Pacenza of the Chair Committee deftly chaired her first meeting. During a relatively quiet Open Forum, the Equity, Access and Community Committee (EACC) presented information about a forthcoming…
LA BAGEL DELIGHT’S JOURNEY ALONG SEVENTH AVENUE
September 8, 2026 By Zach Schiffman There has been a La Bagel Delight on Seventh Avenue since 1986—just not always at the same address, and not always the same one. The original location of the local bagel chain opened that year at 252 Seventh Ave., in a space that had been a family-run Italian deli…
The Sardine Shortage Reaches the Coop
August 18, 2026 By Lora Kelley Sardines are having a moment. All over TikTok, posters embrace “sardinemaxxing” and “sardine girl summer,” raving about the nutritional benefits of the tasty and relatively sustainable snack. In 2022, Vogue wrote of “the tinned fish mania that has gripped the world.” Earlier this year, Wirecutter suggested that “Sardine’s PR…
Vendor Profile: Our Muesli Makers
August 18, 2026 By Kim Velsey When Mike Shuster and Lisa Zaccaglini, the founders of Mu Mu Muesli, moved upstate to Sharon Springs in 2001, they never imagined that in a decade they’d be making more than a thousand pounds of muesli a week. The couple, who’d met in an MFA program at Stanford years…
Back to the Coop for Back-to-School Supplies
August 18, 2026 By Rosie Nisanyan According to the Coop’s Equity, Access and Community Committee 2025 Demographic Survey, about one quarter of survey respondents have children living with them. For these families, the end of summer means one thing: BTS! No, not the K-Pop band’s World Tour, but back-to- school preparation and all that it…
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