An impromptu football game in the parking lot of a Key Food in Williamsburg ended tragically for a Bronx teenager Saturday night. Edgar Soto, 17, was visiting the neighborhood with his mother to attend a friend's birthday party, and had joined some pals to toss a football around in the parking lot around 11:30 p.m. An NYPD spokesman tells us that he was fatally stabbed in the torso during a confrontation with another group who appeared in the parking lot, located on Grand Street between Lorimer and Leonard. Soto was pronounced dead on arrival at Woodhull hospital. more ›

An unidentified man with a cell phone and a burning desire to see up a woman's skirt had his perverse predilection precluded in a Park Slope supermarket this morning. It all happened around 11 a.m. in Aisle Five of the Key Food on Fifth Avenue when a shopper wearing a calf-length summer dress noticed a man following her as she browsed. The pervy perp, who wore aviator sunglasses, was described as "handsome" by witnesses, who tell the Post the woman caught him trying to take photos up her skirt with his cell phone. more ›

Last month the Brooklyn Heights Key Food got some bad press after the supermarket sold some D’Artagnan chicken that was old and spoiled—the customer who bought it on May 12th said, "The ‘sell by’ date on the label said May 16... But the dopes left the original ‘sell by’ sticker underneath it: May 5. Eleven days earlier." Now the very same Key Food is back in the spotlight over bad labeling once again. And this time it's personal seafood. more ›

A customer at a Brooklyn Heights Key Food says the supermarket intentionally sold her some D’Artagnan chicken that was old and spoiled, simply by slapping a new expiration sticker on the expired package. "I got it home [on May 12], cut off the wrapping and smelled something wrong immediately," customer Marie Viljoen tells the Brooklyn Paper. "The ‘sell by’ date on the label said May 16. … But the dopes left the original ‘sell by’ sticker underneath it: May 5. Eleven days earlier." The dopes at the Atlantic Avenue Key Food deny this, and say Viljoen is just trying to shake them down. more ›

A Windsor Terrace grocery store manager came under fire from customers for installing and promptly removing a menorah and a Christmas tree he had placed in front of his store. For the second year in a row, Key Food manager Mike Jordings allowed Rabbi Moshe Hecht to put a 10-foot tall menorah in front of his Prospect Avenue store during Hanukkah. But by the third night of the Festival of Lights, complaints about the Jewish icon were getting intense. "I was trying to be festive, but my everyday customers didn't feel that way," he told the Daily News. "They felt uncomfortable." more ›

A tip to America's Most Wanted led authorities to James Gonzalez, who police believe fatally stabbed his girlfriend and injured another woman at the East Village Key Food on February 29. Gonzalez was found in a Miami homeless shelter, and NYPD detectives are headed to Florida to bring him back to face charges. more ›

A month ago, a man stabbed two employees of the Key Foods supermarket in the East Village, killing one and seriously injuring the other. Today, police released surveillance footage from the attack, in hopes that someone can provide information on suspect Jamie Gonzalez. more ›

The police are continuing to look for James Gonzalez, who is suspected of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend at a grocery store as well as stabbing her co-worker. The attack occurred Friday afternoon at the East Village Key Foods location. more ›

The police are looking for a man suspected of stabbing two Key Food employees, one of whom died at a hospital two hours after the afternoon attack. Other employees at the East Village store say James Gonzalez, a part-time maintenance worker, stabbed ex-girlfriend Tina Negron with a 10-inch knife, because he was upset over their breakup. more ›

Two female Key Food employees at the Avenue A and East 4th Street store were attacked by a knife-wielding man. The police originally said one of the woman died, but it turns out that one is "clinging to life" while the other is in critical condition. more ›

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. more ›

We’ve been avoiding the London Broil for months now. Running into the large cut is usually as hard as opening up a weekly circular, and it seems to taunt us at every turn. It appears as an insanely cheap steak, but done wrong and it's the toughest, driest piece of meat that's hard to chew that we can imagine. The cut could refer to any number of parts of the cow, and fetches prices usually under the $4 mark. C-Town, Pathmark, and the Met have all had specials for weeks now. But it wasn’t until Key Food had the steaks going buy one get one free that we paid attention. more ›

The Brooklyn DA's office arrested four NYC Transit Authority workers for trying to bilk the Workers' Compensation system of thousands of dollars for "injuries they either never sustained or grossly exaggerated." For instance, there's Valerie Scroggins, a bus driver who said that she suffered a shoulder injury last September. Between September and January of this year, she received $13,348.98 in checks for her injury. But in November, she took a fateful trip to Europe. more ›

Leaving our local Key Food this morning, for the first time we heard the spare change guy's rendition of "Bad to the Bone" and then we turned to one of our weekend rituals: Reading the The Brooklyn Paper. more ›

- Outsourcing is coming to a high-end restaurant near you, and no we are not talking about phone reservationists working abroad who do not understand that a 5:45 reservation is unacceptable to you. more ›

Regardless of what Key Foods has to say, not many people need 10 avocados. It is the fattiest fruit in the kingdom and supplies some 25 percent of your daily monounsaturated fat needs. Who needs 10 of these besides Super Bowl party planners in need of a mega-batch of guacamole? Key Food’s hope is that the low price per piece, $1, will bring interest, and to their credit, it worked. more ›

Recently, we passed by the flower kiosk outside our local Key Food at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Carroll Street in Park Slope where we noticed a piece of art tacked to a brick wall alongside tied-up, broken-down boxes, milk crates, a hand truck and piles of trash. more ›

Some problems for disabled macaque owner Steven Seidler: It seems that while he's allowed to have Darla help him, he's not allowed to take Darla outside the house, according to a judge's orders. An advocate for the disabled had helped Seidler win the right to keep Darla in his apartment, even though it's against city health codes, because Darla helps him open jars and cabinets, but the macaque had to be kept inside. Now Seidler might lose Darla, after a weekend incident where she bit a boy at a Key Food. The NY Post interviews a now-8-year-old alleged victim of Darla's sharp teeth (Gothamist thinks the Daily News refers to this as an unfounded complaint), who says, "It was very painful. He just ripped the skin off. After that, I was afraid to go outside. I hate monkeys now. There should be no monkeys in the world." The Post also has a photograph of Darla looking out Seidler's window as well as a quote from Bronx Zoo primates curator Colleen McCann ("It is inappropriate to take a macaque into the cereal aisle"). more ›

The story about a monkey that bites a toddler's arm is maybe the best proof that there are helper monkeys out there. There's Helene Romano and her grandson, Tommy. There's also Steven Seidler, a disabled man, and his service monkey/macaque, Darla (age 6). They meet at the Key Food on East 66th Street and Avenue U in Brooklyn, and then the facts get fuzzy: Grandmother Romano claims that Darla bit Tommy unprovoked, while Seidler says that Tommy had grabbed her and pulled her hair. Seidler, who uses a wheelchair at times and suffers from asthma, ephysema, and poor circulation, told the Daily News, "The kid grabbed the monkey and yanked her hair. I think the animal showed unbelievable self-control until the third rip, and then, in self-defense, the monkey gave it a bite." more ›

An Upper West Sider told Newsday, "I wanted to see Whole Foods because I've never seen a real supermarket in New York City." For the love of God: On the upper West Side there's an Associated, that Food Emporium under the Ansonia, and Fairway. There's the Morton Williams on LaGuardia. But you don't need real supermarkets in New York City: We don't need the gas station in front, the ATM, photo developers, or the ugly strip mall trappings. You're not driving, the ATM is at every block, and so are photo developers. And if you want a real supermarket in New York City, there's Pathmark and Key Food and others in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx. more ›