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Whither Black-Owned Fort Greene?: Night of the Cookers Closes
Restaurant and bar's demise the latest sign of a changing neighborhood.
In the end, concluded its 13-year run on Fulton Street with something more akin to a whimper than a bang.
The black-owned Southern food restaurant closed its doors for good last weekend—a month earlier than expected.
The space will be taken over by , which will move a block east from its current location to the larger Cookers storefront between S. Portland Avenue and S. Oxford Street, according the The Local Fort Greene blog.
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The closing of Cookers, along with in May and the recent , prompts the question:
Is the black-owned Fort Greene business an endangered species?
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