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CTown Supermarkets - Bronx, NY (Mott Haven)

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By Zachary
CTown Supermarkets
Opened: November 2025
Owner: unknown
Previous Tenants: none
Cooperative: Krasdale
Location: 423 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY
Photographed: November 29, 2025
It's not too often that we see brand-new CTowns opening here in the city, although there are a lot of them across all five boroughs. In fact, CTown is the second-most common supermarket brand in the city, behind only Key Food. Key Food Stores is the market leader in New York City by sales volume, and Krasdale, the cooperative that represents CTown and Bravo stores, is #2. Krasdale has just opened a brand-new, 13,000 square foot CTown in Mott Haven, a waterfront neighborhood in the southwestern Bronx.
This store is at Grand Concourse and 144th, removed from the main business district of Mott Haven along busy 138th Street, but it's right at Hostos Community College, and just blocks from Lincoln Hospital. So there's still plenty of traffic through this area, which is booming with residential development. There's another CTown in Mott Haven at 3rd Ave and 145th Street, about half a mile east, but that's a very small and old-school store. This one is anything but old-school, with its modern design and high ceilings.
You enter to the grand aisle. The registers are at the front with a cafe seating area in the front-left corner. Produce is in the middle, with packaged prepared foods, baked goods, and cold cuts lining the two sides of the department. Service deli, along with a sushi bar, a hot food bar, and a salad bar, are at the back of the produce department. The grocery aisles are behind that, running side-to-side. Meat is on the right side, with dairy also on the right and in the back and frozen on the left side.
This store is in its soft opening phase, but seemed to be to be mostly ready.
There aren't many supermarkets in this neighborhood in general, but as housing booms along the waterfront, the supermarkets are coming too. In fact, a former gas station just diagonally across Grand Concourse is set to eventually become a two-story Food Bazaar, although that project is likely many years away from completion. The Bronx Terminal Market is about half a mile northwest, home to the borough's largest supermarket and a new LIDL.
The high ceilings here have allowed the CTown owners to install some big, bold, and colorful signage, which I really like.
Here you can see the back of the produce department, with the grocery aisles behind this case.
Meat runs along the back of the deli and dairy runs along the right side of the store.
This store truly feels brand-new, and that's in part because it's in a brand-new building. The property was previously home to an ornate but abandoned public school, and the project actually dates back to 2016.
The grocery aisles are complete, with a little of everything as far as I could tell. In this neighborhood, there are customers looking for just about everything -- you need to have the Latino and Caribbean staples the longtime neighborhood residents want, the cheap eats college students are looking for, grab-and-go items for them and the hospital employees, and higher-end specialty items for the new transplants. I spotted a little bit of all of the above here.
You can see that even here in cleaning products, where the dish soap selection includes everything from Krasdale (trust me, don't buy Krasdale dish soap unless you have to) to Seventh Generation.
Dairy and some of the frozen department lines the back wall in the last aisle.
And frozen continues down the left side of the store. Below, we're looking back up towards the front of the supermarket where produce and deli are.
Here's a look at the registers at the front of the store.
Always nice to see a new-build supermarket opening up in the city! Speaking of things opening, there's no shortage of that this weekend...

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