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Associated Fresh - Manhattan, NY (Washington Heights)

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By Zachary
Associated Fresh
Opened: May 2025
Owner: unknown
Previous Tenants: Rite Aid
Cooperative: Associated Supermarket Group
Location: 2050 Amsterdam Ave, Manhattan, NY
Photographed: June 30, 2025
Rite Aid is all anyone in retail has been talking about lately -- and that includes me, with yesterday's post of a CTown opening in a former Rite Aid. Today, we have two more former Rite Aids, including this 21,000 square foot one in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. Where Amsterdam and Saint Nicholas converge, at 162nd Street, a former Rite Aid was originally slated to become a Key Food but has opened instead as an Associated Fresh.
Like the CTown yesterday, the interior here was extensively renovated and looks like a brand-new supermarket. The layout tips us off that there was previously something else here, but really, this is New York City -- I've seen weirder layouts in newly-built stores. Let's head in.
We enter to deli, which is just inside the entrance on the wall to the left. In a layout reminiscent of Pathmark Super Centers, produce is kind of in the middle of the store. Meat is on the left side, with part of the department just behind deli and the rest on the left-side wall, and then there's another aisle or two of groceries, then produce and beer in a large aisle roughly in front of the entrance. Dairy lines the back wall with frozen on the right side.
The deli department is just around the corner in front of the case above, and below, we're looking towards the back of the first aisle.
The floor here isn't polished concrete, but it's vinyl tile that looks similar.
And as I've come to expect from a lot of the small NYC stores, the place is spotless (even several weeks after opening). Check out how well all of those shelves are stocked!
Produce and beer are in the third aisle, I believe, which is right behind the deli and the entrance.
I like the design of this store, but the produce sign falls flat because it's too dark against the dark ceiling. Still, it's very attractively designed.
Dairy lines the back wall behind produce and the grocery aisles.
All of the fixtures here appear to be brand-new.
This immediate neighborhood has a lot of supermarkets. Just across the street is a CTown, then a block west are a Shop Fair and a large, two-story Foodtown.
Eggs in the back-right corner, then frozen foods line the rest of the back wall.
Unfortunately, even though this is a brand-new store, the decor is already struggling. Frozen Food and Frozen Fish have each lost a letter already, even though this store only opened in May.
And a look across the front-end, with deli on the other side...
The Associated Supermarket Group has also recently opened a store across the Harlem River to the east. Check that out along with the rest of this weekend's posts here!

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