The Park Slope Food Coop rarely ever closes. But on Tuesday it was closed due to a power outage.

Monday evening, the lights in the Coop started flickering. Then they went out. The cause: a fire below street level caused by the heat conditions. There were 100 people in the Coop but noone could take their food because the cash registers weren’t  working. There were shopping carts full of food all over the place.

On Tuesday there was a sign on the door that said: Coop Closed. Some staff members came to work to give perishables to City Harvest and CHIPS and to do what work they could without electricity: no air conditioning, no computers. The Coop reopened at 4 p.m

Today at the Coop, everything seemed back to normal but it was more crowded than usual for a Wednesday mid-day.

The New York Sun seemed to think the Coop’s power outage was noteworthy. They put it on the front page of Wednesday’s newspaper.