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Fresh, affordable produce at
Three Guys from Brooklyn
Eat your fruits and vegetables.
Thanks to Three Guys from
Brooklyn, they’re affordable and
good quality.
The fruit-and-vegetable emporium,
started by hard-working
Brooklynite Stanley Zimmerman
in 1975, has done its
part to keep residents healthy
for more than 35 years. Now
that’s staying power.
While so many other fruit
stands have gone the way of
white disco suits, Three Guys
from Brooklyn has kept its
eye on satisfying a consumer
need — consistently providing
fresh, delicious fruits and vegetables
to its customers, all at
affordable prices.
This goal was accomplished
by three men with street smarts.
It was 1978 when Zimmerman
expanded the business, moving
it to a new location, and bringing
his brother, Howard, and
his brother-in-law, Harry, into
the fold. These straight-shooters
called this venture Three Guys
from Brooklyn.
Today, the three guys that
run it — Zimmerman’s son,
Scott, and business partners
Philip Penta and Philip Penta Jr.
— maintain that same vision.
“We make sure the rich and
the poor can afford the finest
fruits and vegetables, no matter
what their budget,” says
Penta Jr.
“It’s easy to sell low quality
at a cheap price,” he says, about
the other fruit stands. “We try
to give people top quality at a
good value.”
They also carry just about
everything — more than 300
fruit and vegetables, including
some you may not have tried,
like dragon fruit, star fruit, and
culantro, an herb popular in
the Caribbean and Latin America.
If you’re sick of the same
old same old, you’ve come to the
right place.
Three Guys from Brooklyn
stocks a variety of grocery
items, too, so shopping there
saves you time as well as money.
As our borough is so diverse,
there are items of interest to all
ethnicities.
“We’re home to everyone from
everywhere,” says Penta Jr.
Take advantage of the store’s
loyalty program. Customers
earn points on every purchase,
and these points are redeemed
for gift cards, good on future purchases.
Special promotions offer
double points, so you can earn
rewards faster. You don’t have to
be a mathematician to figure out
that’s a good deal.
Three Guys is also committed
to conducting its day-to-day
operations in an environmentally
responsible manner that
is above and beyond the regulations
mandated by the city, says
Penta Jr. That’s good news for
Three Guys from Brooklyn and
for the rest of us, too.
This company cares about
the environment.
“Our sustainability effort is
one of the most aggressive in the
city,” says Penta Jr. “We have onsite
composting machines that
break down solid waste into water,
keeping trailers off the road
and waste out of landfills.”
By converting solid food
waste into liquid, it becomes
suitable for conventional sewer
systems.
“We’re the very first green
grocer in Brooklyn to address
the problem,” he says.
These efforts help the immediate
neighborhood. Unsightly
waste is not lining the streets,
attracting vermin, and causing
foul odors to linger.
“We’re mindful of our neighbors’
welfare,” he says.
Three Guys from Brooklyn
6502 Ft. Hamilton Pkwy. at 65th
Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 748–
8340, www.3GuysFromBrooklyn.
com. Open seven days a week, 24
hours a day, even holidays.
Stephen Zacks
Brownstoner
A fairly spectacular Colonial
Revival standalone single
family home designed
by Slee & Bryson in 1906
is advertised as “country
living in the city,” and that
sounds about right, considering
the driveway, garage,
sauna and canning room in
the basement. The address is
197 Rugby Road, and it’s in
the Prospect Park South Historic
District.
It’s got dormers and intersecting
peaked roofs over a
five-window bay and a neo-
Colonial columned porch, half
of which was enclosed in 1947.
Aluminum siding has hidden
additional exterior details, according
to the historic district
designation report, but there’s
still a lot to see here, particularly
on the inside.
Past the front door with diamond
paned sidelights is an
impressive oak-lined stair hall
with coffered ceiling, builtin
shelves, space for seating,
cork-tile floors, wainscoting,
leaded and stained glass windows,
and an inglenook with
wood-burning fireplace.
Adjacent is a huge living
room with windows on two
sides and parquet floors. The
parquet continues into the dining
room beyond, which has another
bay window and beamed
ceiling. A built-in china cabinet,
unusual modern shutters
and radiator covers under the
windows appear to be later,
circa 1940 additions.
The kitchen is renovated
in a modern farmhouse style
with extensive butcher-block
wood countertops, cork floors,
white subway tile backsplash
and white cabinetry, including
a wall of pantry closets. There
is also a breakfast room and a
powder room on this level.
Upstairs there are six bedrooms
and 3.5 bathrooms
spread over two floors and
altogether a dozen closets, including
a walk-in closet on the
top floor and a dressing room
in the master suite.
In the cellar is a finished rec
room, laundry, toilet and the
aforementioned steam room
with adjacent changing room,
and canning room. The front
yard is nicely landscaped, and
the rear yard paved, with a tree
and tidy-looking garage.
The mechanicals have
been updated and the house
has central air conditioning,
according to the listing, from
Karen Talbott and Kyle Talbott
of Corcoran.
The architects John Slee
and Robert Bryson formed the
Slee & Bryson office around
1905 and had both previously
worked with the Brooklyn architect
John J. Petit, who designed
many houses in Prospect
Park South, according to
the designation report for the
Albemarle-Kenmore Terraces
Historic District, where they
went on to do extensive work
in the 1910s. The report also
notes that they both served
as presidents of the Brooklyn
Chapter of the American Institute
of Architects.
The house is asking $2.995
million, which works out to
about $920 per square foot,
based on the listed 3,258
square feet of interior space.
What do you think of the property
and the price?
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This 1906 revival features a garage, inglenook, and sauna, among other unique details.
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