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Eight people were arrested on charges of selling drugs out of the storefronts.

Most of the suspects were dealing marijuana. In one case, police say a suspect was selling cocaine out of a deli.

Three take-out restaurants, a clothing store, a record store and a bodega were among the properties raided.

As many as 400 people a week were buying drugs out of these locations, police say.

“In the food locations, you can get the drugs actually in the food themselves, or perhaps go in the back of the store and pick it up,” said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly of how the drug deals were taking place. “It may just be given to you over the counter.”

Police say the arrests are the result of a nearly two-month long investigation.

“I can just tell you that it was an open drug bazaar on Nostrand Avenue,” said City Councilwoman Letitia James. “And a significant number of residents said it has to come to an end.”

The commissioner says the city plans to shut down the businesses.

"These places may have been able to have made it as a legitimate business. We don't know that, and we're not going to give them a chance to find out," said Kelly.

Residents told NY1 that the stores' drug activity was an open secret in the neighborhood.