LIDL
Opened: December 10, 2025
Welcome to the newest LIDL! This store opened last week in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, in a new-build building on a property previously occupied by a large, suburban-style Key Food. The Key Food was around 35,000 square feet with a ground-level parking lot. Of course, in the urban and rapidly growing Park Slope area, that wasn't long for this world, so the LIDL is both smaller (25,000 square feet) and lacking the surface parking lot. There does appear to be a garage, but I'm not sure whether it's free parking for LIDL or not.
This store is also under a mile from the relatively new Downtown Brooklyn LIDL, and is also not far from Brooklyn's newest ALDI. At the other end of Park Slope is the new K-Slope Marketplace.
To maximize retail space in the new building, the LIDL is in the basement. And unlike the downtown Brooklyn one, the entire supermarket is in the basement. The ground level foyer has nothing but some elevators and the escalators/staircase.
Once we get down to the basement, we find a pretty straightforward LIDL, although with some layout modifications.
Here, produce is in the front-right corner, with deli/cold cuts in the rest of the first aisle. Meat and seafood are on the back wall with bakery in the back-left corner, and dairy/frozen are on the left side.
The store has a crisp, modern look that is also very, very boring. LIDL's newest decor isn't exactly heavy on the charm.
Still, I've seen a lot of positive responses to this store (and the other NYC locations) simply because food is so expensive in the city.
LIDL now has 11 stores in the city, with at least a handful more on the way. There's one under construction in Williamsburg, Brooklyn -- also on the site of a former Key Food with a surface-level parking lot.
These blue shopping carts are different from what many LIDLs use, and I wonder if they're actually secondhand. If I'm remembering correctly, Best Market had carts like these, and given that LIDL acquired Best Market, it's possible they also had an excess of carts from those stores. Most NJ LIDL stores that I frequent have gray metal carts.
The largest competitor in this area is a suburban-sized Stop & Shop (formerly Pathmark) at the Atlantic Terminal Mall. An Associated is four and a half blocks south. A number of other grocers are to the east near Grand Army Plaza, including a Key Food affiliate, an upscale Union Market, a natural grocer called DNY Natural Land, and a Foodtown.
Here you can see the last few aisles, with the "Midl of LIDL" general merchandise section being less the midl and more the last two aisles. Frozen and dairy are on the other side of the wood paneling next to the person in the blue coat below.
This back corner is definitely an unusual place for the bakery, and it's presumably dictated by the layout of the backroom space.
Frozen foods in the second-to-last aisle...
...and dairy, along with soda and other drinks, in the last aisle.
The registers are then around the corner, kind of behind and under the staircase that leads customers downstairs. You exit back to the same staircase and escalator.
And that wraps up our look at the new Park Slope LIDL! Don't miss this weekend's other posts here...
Opened: December 10, 2025
Owner: Schwarz Group
Previous Tenants: none; Key Food previously on property
Cooperative: none
Location: 120 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Photographed: December 12, 2025
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