CTown Supermarkets
Opened: June 20, 2025
It's definitely an unusual exterior at this brand-new CTown in the Bronx's Pelham Gardens section. That's due in part to the building's history: it's only been a supermarket for a couple weeks, and before that, this space was home to a (you guessed it) Rite Aid. There are medical and other offices on the second floor, so it's not that unusual to have a pharmacy on the ground floor. Now, after an extensive renovation, the approximately 11,000 square foot space is home to the newest CTown.
I'm a bit confused by the orange -- CTown's colors are red, white, and yellow, not orange, white, and yellow -- but it also looks like the permanent signage hasn't gone up yet, so this may not be the final look for the outside. Let's step inside to find...
...an absolutely gorgeous supermarket that looks nothing like the dingy, unappealing Rite Aid it replaced! If you told me this was a new-build store, I'd believe it. Absolutely everything is brand-new, right down to the ceiling and flooring. Another Rite Aid-turned-CTown down in southern Brooklyn, for instance, looked quite nice but had a lot left over from the pharmacy inside. This one is a brand-new store.
And it feels much larger than its relatively small size. This is a fairly suburban part of the Bronx, so you have a lot of people who are driving to shop, but this is still the only full-service supermarket in this part of Pelham Gardens. There's a pleasant little grocer diagonally across the street called Battaglia's Market, and an ALDI about half a mile east.
One look at the produce department's merchandising and you see why this store packs a bigger punch than you might expect given its size. This store's owners have pulled out all the stops for a complete, first-rate supermarket.
The store is oriented with produce along the front wall (against the parking lot), then meat on the right side. Grocery aisles run side-to-side, with dairy/frozen at the back. Deli/bakery and hot food are in the back-left corner, then the front-end runs along the left-side wall. It's set up this way because it's much wider than it is deep, allowing the aisles to be long.
And you can see in the aisles that the store looks large, because they're long. This building can't have been that old, or else the renovation must've been extraordinarily extensive, because this concrete floor looks absolutely brand new.
Beer and frozen in the second-to-last aisle.
These cases may be secondhand, as they look a bit older to me than the rest of the fixtures. But everything is in excellent shape and looks brand-new.
And dairy lines the outside of the last aisle, which is at the back of the store.
Deli/bakery and hot food in the back-left corner. No in-store bakery, but they do have fresh-made sushi in the deli -- something I definitely didn't expect. I really like this decor, and the design of the store throughout is pleasant and attractive. It feels upscale without feeling like a gourmet store, which it's not. But this is one of the higher-income neighborhoods of the Bronx, so they're definitely shooting for a step-up look.
Baked goods are between deli and customer service, and the front-end continues beyond that. You can see the entrance and exit doors straight ahead in the below picture.
This is yet another really well-used former Rite Aid (we've seen lots) and it makes me happy to see supermarkets taking over drugstores rather than the other way around, which was more common for years, maybe decades.
There's plenty more to see this weekend, including another converted Rite Aid! Check it out here...
Opened: June 20, 2025
Owner: unknown
Previous Tenants: Rite Aid
Cooperative: Krasdale Foods
Location: 2426 Eastchester Rd, Bronx, NY
Photographed: June 30, 2025
Saturday
- Checking in on a Village Super Market-owned ShopRite
- CTown opens new stores in Brooklyn and the Bronx (this post)
Sunday
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