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America's Food Basket (coming soon) - Brooklyn, NY (East Flatbush)

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By Zachary
America's Food Basket
Opening: TBA
Owner: unknown
Previous Tenants: Bohack (1960s-early 1970s) > Key Food (open by 1977, closed after 1992) > Rite Aid (closed 2023)
Cooperative: America's Food Basket
Location: 4102 Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Photographed: September 19, 2025
Once again, a closed Rite Aid will become a supermarket. Here in East Flatbush, the 10,000 square foot building does have a long history as a supermarket. It appears to have been built as a Bohack back in the early 1960s, which became a Key Food by 1977. Key Food stayed here until at least 1992, but eventually the building became a Rite Aid. Rite Aid closed in 2023, and now, the space is soon to reopen as an America's Food Basket.
AFB, like so many other grocery operators, is finding former drugstores to be very useful. I just posted a store of theirs in a former Walgreens in Boston, and in the Bronx, they've taken over a former Rite Aid under the brand Ogden Market Center. Meanwhile, they just opened a store in Easton, PA in a former Rite Aid, and are preparing another in a former Allentown Rite Aid. Plus, don't forget this one over in Canarsie (about two and a half miles from here) that opened a few years ago in a former Rite Aid.
AFB won't be alone here in this part of East Flatbush, though: there's an Associated directly across the street. In fact, look carefully at the AFB windows above and you will see the reflection of the Associated logo. That store was a longtime Associated that became a Key Food and then a Shop Fair and has now returned to Associated. That Associated, though not particularly special, is clean and well-stocked, but only 5700 square feet. This AFB will be almost double the size (and has a parking lot). We'll see how the two compete over time. An important note: since historical information is relatively limited here, I don't know for sure whether the Associated ever overlapped with one of the supermarkets in this building before Rite Aid.
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