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Key Food Marketplace - Woodside, NY

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By Zachary
Key Food Marketplace
Opened: March 20, 2026
Owner: Mufeed Siad / Joe Zariyeh
Previous Tenants: A&P > Foodtown > Rite Aid
Cooperative: Key Food Stores
Location: 50-15 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside, NY
Photographed: March 20, 2026
A comment on a recent post about a Rite Aid converted to a supermarket pointed out that these Rite Aid buildings are the modern-day equivalent of the centennial A&P -- so many remain, but they're largely repurposed for a variety of other uses (thanks, Chris P!). I love that analogy. Now let's take it one step further: this new supermarket in Woodside, Queens is remarkably both a former centennial A&P and a former Rite Aid, though you wouldn't know about the A&P past just from a look. The centennial facade is still there behind this newer Rite Aid facade, though.
Here's something else interesting: this was actually still a supermarket until rather recently. Although A&P opened here in the 1960s, selling the store in 1996 to PSK Supermarkets, which operated it as a Foodtown until 2003. The building is around 20,000 square feet, but a portion of the store in the front-left corner has been cut out for a few smaller tenants.
Now, a Key Food operator has moved into the space, replacing a much older, 7000 square foot store about a block north. That store was under the Fresh n Save brand, a local chain, but the same owners now own this new Key Food.
I visited this new Key Food on its first day of operation, which was Friday. (The old Fresh n Save closed about a week prior.) It's the largest supermarket in the immediate area, although there are a lot of supermarkets nearby. A Fresh n Save is about a quarter of a mile west on Queens Blvd, and another is about two-thirds of a mile east on Roosevelt Ave.
This store is the largest under the Fresh n Save group, and in addition to three Fresh n Save locations, an owner of Fresh n Save also owns two Windsor Farms stores in Brooklyn. All of those stores are affiliated with Key Food.
This store feels large and spacious, and has a lot more to offer than the previous location (more on that soon). But let's take a good look at this produce department. The drop ceiling has been removed -- see inside the Rite Aid here -- and A&P is making itself known here. You can see the vaulted ceiling inside here, which is the inside of the centennial facade. It's not often we get to see this perspective on it. This area would've been A&P's front-end, but Key Food has rotated the store so that the front-end is on what was A&P's side wall. Produce runs along the front wall, with deli-bakery in the front-left corner. Meats line the left side wall, with fish in the back-left corner and frozen/dairy at the back of the store. The registers run along the right side wall, with the grocery aisles running side to side.
I love the lighting here in the produce department, with these small lights but plenty of lighting overall.
Deli-bakery is at the back of the produce department, and they are in fact baking in-store here. There's a counter for fresh breads and a couple cases of baked goods.
Fresh n Save has in-store bakery departments in their other locations (most NYC supermarkets don't), so it makes sense they'd have one here.
A look across the back wall, with meat and the seafood department in the back corner.
Key Food had two openings on Friday, this one and another on Long Island.
This store seemed very busy, as I think it was highly anticipated. The former Fresh n Save is rumored to be demolished soon for a new, multilevel development.
The decor is simple but attractive here. It has the same general look as some other new Key Food stores.
Frozen and dairy are at the back of the store, in the last aisles.
The seafood counter hadn't been fully set up yet, when I visited in the morning of opening day.
As usual, there's a lot packed into this space, although this is on the larger side for a former Rite Aid. We've seen stores half this size become full supermarkets.
Dairy continues onto the wall next to the registers.
And the front-end is next to that. Nine aisles in total, not including the produce department.
It's nice to see that, as the space of the old Fresh n Save is being redeveloped, a supermarket has remained in the area. It's particularly convenient that they were able to move into the closed Rite Aid. Now, speaking of the old store...


Fresh n Save Marketplace
Opened: unknown
Owner: Mufeed Siad / Joe Zariyeh
Previous Tenants: Bohack > Associated (opened 1977) > Food Dynasty
Cooperative: Key Food Stores
Location: 50-18 Skillman Ave, Woodside, NY
Photographed: January 12, 2023 and March 20, 2026
...let's take a look inside with my pictures from early 2023. This small store was a supermarket for decades, opening as a Bohack around the 1950s. In 1977, an Associated moved into the space, and it was acquired by the Fresh n Save owners in 1986. I'm not sure what brand the store was at that time, but by the mid-00s, it became a Food Dynasty that switched to Fresh n Save somewhere around 2010.
Although this store was much smaller and older than the new Key Food, it similarly had a lot packed into the tiny space. Produce was on the left side, with meats on the back wall. Dairy/frozen were on the right side, with deli in the front-right corner.
This store closed on March 14, 2026 and the new Key Food opened on March 20, 2026. (Someone posted on Reddit that an employee at this store said they were originally planning to open the new one right around the time the old one closed, but wanted to do the grand opening on a Friday and didn't want to open on Friday the 13th.)
The other three Fresh n Save stores received pretty extensive renovations around 2015 or so, but this one didn't. It's possible they knew they wouldn't be able to stay here for the long term, or they didn't want to do so many upgrades in a space as small as this one.
I haven't seen this decor anywhere other than this store, so I imagine it was custom-made for the Fresh n Save (or whatever brand it happened to be using at the time). This store has been under the same ownership since 1986.
Some newer fixtures here in the dairy department, but you can tell generally the fixtures were old here.
These freezer cases certainly were!
Seven aisles here, including the produce department, but obviously this is a much smaller store.
Deli-bakery in the front-right corner.
And a look at the front end...
Once the store closed, signage notifying customers of the closure even advertised the new store coming soon.
Door to door, this store is only about 250 yards from the new Key Food, so it's as close of a replacement as you're going to get in this neighborhood. Check out the other posts of this weekend here!

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