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MAY 5, 2019, BROOKLYN WEEKLY
Eat your fruits and vegetables.
Thanks to Three Guys
from Brooklyn, they’re affordable
and good quality.
The fruit-and-vegetable
emporium, started by hardworking
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 straightshooters
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 dayto
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 on-site 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.
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