LIDL Opened: May 23, 2025 Owner: The Schwarz Group Previous Tenants: assorted non-grocery tenants Cooperative: none Location: 490 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: June 13, 2025 Another new LIDL for NYC! The discount chain continues to grow, albeit much more slowly than originally forecast, and here in downtown Brooklyn the latest location opened up in late May. At 30,000 square feet, it's not huge, but it's fairly large for an urban Brooklyn store. It follows a store that opened at the Gateway Center in January . The store is set up in a highly unusual way. The majority of the supermarket is on the second floor -- in a space previously occupied by a Raymour & Flanigan furniture store -- but a small space on the first floor, which has its own entrance, is home to the bakery and floral departments. You can either go to those departments and then check out at the self-checkouts, then leave out the front doors, or you can leave that room without ...
Whole Foods Market Opened: May 14, 2025 Owner: Amazon Previous Tenants: Associated Supermarkets Cooperative: none Location: 409 E 14th St, Manhattan, NY Photographed: June 13, 2025 Whole Foods has been in the news mostly recently for out-of-stocks related to a hack at UNFI , their primary supplier. But just before that, Whole Foods made the news for opening two new small-format stores in New York City, in mid-May here in Stuyvesant Town, and early June in Hell's Kitchen, which we'll see in a bit. This is the latest expansion for the small-format stores, with the first location opening on the Upper East Side in September . Here in Stuy Town, a roughly 10,000 square foot Whole Foods Daily Shop has replaced a longtime Associated that closed in 2019. It's been extensively renovated and looks nothing like the previous Associated (which was pleasant and very old-school). It's been long enough that I don't really remember the layout of the Associated, but...