All Sizzle, No Steaks: Is This Park Slope Butcher Shop Closed Or Not?

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A recently reopened butcher shop appears to have cut out of Park Slope permanently — or so think many of its neighbors.

The empty shelves inside Fleishers, a sustainable butcher shop, along with a "permanently closed" listing on Google, have prompted speculation that the shop is kaput just weeks after its return to Fifth Avenue.

Neighbors, after seeing the shelves and sign, took to a local Facebook group to comment on the potential permanent closure, many noting that shelves have been barren for over a week.

Amid all the speculation, the shop's owners have been silent. They did not respond to Patch's multiple requests for comment as to the status of its Park Slope outpost by the time of this article's publication.

Fleishers has also been quiet on social media for more than a week — a break from its usual multiple posts per-week about sausage deals and sandwiches.

After stopping by the shop Tuesday afternoon — a day when the butcher shop is usually closed, according to the website — a Patch reporter also saw empty shelves on the customer-facing side of the store.

The part of the store where meat is handled, though, was still scattered with items like jars of tomato sauce and ketchup bottles, Patch saw.

If the store is permanently closed, it comes after a turbulent year for the shop.

The shop's owners reopened their Park Slope outpost in March for the first time in about eight months, following an employee walkout over the removal of signs supporting Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ movements.

The reopening marked Fleishers' return to the region, where it has three other stores, the company said at the time.

Fleishers' outposts outside of Brooklyn — one on the Upper East Side and two in Connecticut — are still listed as "temporarily closed" but "opening soon" on the butcher's website.

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