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Metro Acres Market - Bronx, NY (Schuylerville)

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By Zachary
Metro Acres Market
Opened: July 2025
Owner: unknown
Previous Tenants: Crest > Big V > Drug Palace > Rite Aid > Walgreens
Cooperative: Retail Grocers Group
Location: 3085 E Tremont Ave, Bronx, NY
Photographed: June 30, 2025
A disclaimer: this post is shorter than I'd want it to be. Last weekend, Metro Acres Market opened up here in the Schuylerville neighborhood in the eastern Bronx, but unfortunately I haven't been here since the store actually opened. I visited shortly before it opened, however, and so we'll see the store in the final days of its construction before it opened.
This 8300 square foot building was almost certainly built as a supermarket, operating as a Crest Supermarket by the late 1960s and by the 1970s it was Big V (not sure if it was related to the ShopRite-affiliated chain in the Hudson Valley called Big V, but I assume not). By 1985, it had become a drugstore called Drug Palace. It was later a Rite Aid and then a Walgreens. When Walgreens closed, the store was slated to become a Fine Fare, but the brand was changed to Metro Acres shortly before the opening. Both brands are affiliated with the same company, and seem to be used almost interchangeably. The Metro Acres Market on the Lower East Side of Manhattan was a longtime Fine Fare, and a Metro Acres Market in a former Rite Aid in Washington Heights became a Fine Fare shortly after it opened.
Because I haven't been in the store yet (and I'll get here as soon as I can!) I don't have any interior pictures after the opening. But you can take a look inside in this Instagram video from a supermarket equipment vendor. I'll post pictures as soon as I visit, and in the meantime, check out this weekend's other posts...
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