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Update: Food Bazaar Supermarket - Brooklyn, NY (Coney Island/Gravesend)

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By Zachary
Food Bazaar Supermarket
Opened: September 2024
Owner: Spencer An
Previous Tenants: Pathmark (1970-2015) > Stop & Shop (2015-2024)
Cooperative: none
Location: 2965 Cropsey Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Photographed: September 9, 2025
We return to the Cropsey Avenue Food Bazaar to see something I always love to see when I'm walking into a supermarket...
Food Bazaar acquired this store from Stop & Shop last September. Before that, it was a Pathmark from 1970 until the chain's 2015 bankruptcy, when it transferred to Stop & Shop. And over the last year Food Bazaar did some minor updates like scraping up the old Pathmark flooring, which Stop & Shop never replaced, and painted the walls and ceiling. But a full remodel hasn't started until recently. This comes as Food Bazaar is moving along with a renovation at Hempstead. See my July post here, and more recent photos have been posted to Google Maps.
Walking in, the produce department looks basically the same as it did before, as Food Bazaar had replaced the produce islands in the middle of the store. See the store as a Stop & Shop here, and here's the produce department before Food Bazaar came in. But, in a remnant from Pathmark's layout, there are several aisles to the right of the produce department, while most of the supermarket is to the left.
Now, as the real renovation ramps up, Food Bazaar has removed these aisles. They're still temporarily here, with pallets of sale items and temporary shelving holding some items. But the aisle markers have been removed, and temporary aisle markers are printed on paper and taped to the shelving.
Food Bazaar has removed some of the refrigeration around the perimeter on this side, which was very old. The vast majority of the fixtures were left over from Pathmark, and Stop & Shop did almost nothing in the nearly 10 years they were here.
These temporary grocery shelves look an awful lot like the shelving that Fairway used. In fact, I have to wonder if this is in fact Fairway shelving that they've had in storage since they removed it from the Fairway locations they acquired in 2020. Here's a look at this type of shelving in the former Fairway location.
We'll see what the eventual plan is here, but I have to assume they'll eliminate these grocery aisles to add expanded perimeter departments. The Pathmark perimeter is very old-school, which includes small service departments. My assumption is that Food Bazaar will expand the meat, seafood, and produce departments.
Pathmark had a pharmacy here, in the front-right corner of the store, which Stop & Shop ran for a time but then closed. They converted the space to a staging area for online order pickup and delivery. Food Bazaar kept the area closed for a while, and now has a very odd assortment of beer, juice, and baked goods in the coolers previously used for keeping refrigerated orders cold. This, obviously, is temporary.
Also temporary: the other half of the former pharmacy is being used as a staging room for the remodel. Notice the descontructed shelves, and the carts of wood (similar to what we saw at Hempstead, above). Most new Food Bazaars use a lot of wood in the decor.
On the left side of the store, the grocery aisles haven't been changed, and this is still Pathmark-era shelving (but with its built-in lighting removed, I believe by Stop & Shop).
Here's something entertaining: Food Bazaar has had to cut the soffit along the back wall to accommodate the new freezer and refrigeration units that they're putting in on the left side of the store. It looks like this part of the layout won't change, but the fixtures are being replaced. Again, most of what the store previously had here was Pathmark-era.
I mean, you can see that that freezer on the left side wouldn't fit under the soffit if they hadn't cut it out! At the end of the store, the last few aisles have been closed off for the new fixtures going in. There was a construction team working on this while I was here, so this seems to be the priority right now.
Dairy was in both sides of the last aisle and has temporarily been condensed to just the outside of the last aisle, and frozen was previously in an aisle and a half and it's been condensed down to just one aisle while the rest of the fixtures go in.
Here's a look at the frozen foods aisle after new cases have gone in, compared to before.
Food Bazaar has moved some of the shelving from the right side of the store into this corner, where Stop & Shop previously had sale items and Food Bazaar later had kitchenwares and nonfoods. I don't know if it's going to stay here, or whether this corner will eventually be used for something else. But I bet that if they're taking out grocery aisles on the right side, they're going to need extra grocery shelving somewhere.
I'll have to come back to check out the remodel once it's done! In the meantime, there's a lot more to see this weekend...
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