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SuperFresh - Brooklyn, NY (Marine Park)

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By Zachary
SuperFresh
Opened: March 12, 2025
Owner: unknown
Previous Tenants: Roulstons Capitol Super Market (1940s-1960s) > Associated (1981-??) > Fine Fare (1990s) > Met Foodmarkets (open by 2004)
Cooperative: Key Food Stores
Location: 3404 Quentin Rd, Brooklyn, NY
Photographed: September 23, 2025
We return to the quiet neighborhood of Marine Park in southern Brooklyn to revisit the tiny SuperFresh in a small business district. It's just 4600 square feet and dates back to the 1940s when it was the Capitol Super Market (and some ads from around the 1950s advertise it as Roulstons, so they may have been co-branded). In 1981, it opened as an Associated, then it was a Fine Fare in the 90s and became a Met Foodmarket no later than 2004. This March, it became a SuperFresh. The outside has gotten an interesting new paint job with red and green stripes that don't match anything at all, but the inside is looking better.
Since the conversion, the new owners have begun an overhaul of the diminutive supermarket, and it's a very extensive change, still in progress. (You can see in the link above that it was very old-school inside.) The deli has been removed from the front-right corner and moved over to the front-left corner, and the customer service counter has been removed from the front wall to be moved to the left side in front of the new deli and new hot food bar.
This area immediately inside the entrance (and you can see the exit door on the other side of the tarp) was the customer service counter, and the deli was formerly to the right in the previous picture.
The first aisle now has produce in new cases and a tow of frozen foods cases not yet fully stocked, and above we're looking up towards the front wall of the store from the back. Notice that even the flooring is new, a necessary change.
New freezer cases line the back wall where there was previously a meat department. The meat department has been moved to the last aisle.
The grocery shelving has been replaced and was still in the process of being set up when I visited, which now was several weeks ago.
There wasn't a lot of decor on the walls previously, but what little there was has been removed. The walls are now blank white, and I don't know if there's more cosmetic work to be done there. The old Met Foods aisle markers (with the word Met removed) remain for now, but as you can see the aisles were moved slightly so they're no longer actually over the aisles. I'm sure they'll be replaced soon enough.
Previously, the dairy department lined the inside of the last aisle, with frozen foods on the outside. Now, meat is on the inside of the last aisle and dairy is on the outside. The Fresh Dairy sign remains from the Met Foods days...
Here's a look at this aisle when it was still a Met Foods.
The registers have been moved so that two together form an island (there were previously three). That also functions as customer service for now, but it looks like eventually that'll be moved up to the front wall just next to the exit door. Deli and a new hot food bar are now in the front-left corner, which you can see below.
Here's this corner previously.
I assume they'll use the space previously taken up by the customer service counter for either more produce or more registers, since that's a large space and this store is so small that I'm sure they need all the space they can get.
Good to see this nearly 100-year-old supermarket getting a big renovation, though! Here's the rest of this weekend's posts...

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