{"id":128699,"date":"2026-02-10T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/128699\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:36:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-bed-stuy-bike-shop-reopens-as-worker-cooperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/128699\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Bed-Stuy bike shop reopens as worker cooperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeplant.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bike Plant<\/a>, a Bed-Stuy bike shop, has reopened as a worker cooperative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more than just fixing your bike, the way we are dedicated to making sure you feel comfortable here,&#8221; said Bahar Baharloo, a worker and co-owner of Bike Plant.<\/p>\n<p>The bike shop has provided bike services to the community since 2021 and is now run by five people, who all have an equal share in the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all contribute a lot, some of us are great with people, and some of us are stronger mechanically,&#8221; said Sean Patterson, a worker and co-owner of Bike Plant.<\/p>\n<p>The shops founder, Robin Graven-Milne, says she noticed a need in Bed-Stuy for another bike shop. After a couple of years, and additional employees came on, she began discussing turning the store into a co-op, but they were concerned they couldn&#8217;t afford it. That&#8217;s where the free resources provided by the Worker Cooperative Business Development <a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.gov\/workercoops\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Initiative<\/a> came into play.<br \/>\n\u201cIt allows us to provide pro bono services to small business owners, it also supports a dozen nonprofits that work with cooperative start-ups,&#8221; said Mike Sandmel, a consultant with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icagroup.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> ICA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been over a month now since Bike Plant switched their business plan to a worker cooperative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d never seen myself as like a business owner and I didn\u2019t know what that would mean, turns out it&#8217;s really empowering and cool to share the business all together,&#8221; said Rae Pellerin, a worker and co-owner of Bike Plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bike Plant, a Bed-Stuy bike shop, has reopened as a worker cooperative. \u201cIt\u2019s more than just fixing your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4986,10483,98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-128699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-bed-stuy","9":"tag-bikes","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}