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Pathmark Daily - Brooklyn, NY (East New York)

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Pathmark Daily
Opened: August 2026
Owner: Christopher Sanchez
Previous Tenants: Key Food (2011-ca. 2016) > Shop Fair (ca. 2017-2026)
Cooperative: Allegiance Retail
Location: 340 Pennsylvania Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Photographed: September 4, 2026
It's Pathmark time -- again! When Pathmark went out of business in 2015, the brand was acquired by Allegiance Retail (the cooperative behind Foodtown), with the relaunch starting in 2019 at a Brooklyn location. Earlier this year, Allegiance debuted a second Pathmark -- a small-format one under the Pathmark Daily brand on Long Island. Now, a third one has entered the picture, this one also a Pathmark Daily in East New York, Brooklyn. This one has opened with virtually no fanfare, and that may be because it's still in transition. Let's back up a bit here to review this store's history. It was built from the ground up in 2011 as a Key Food of just under 18,000 square feet. For reasons I'm not quite sure of, Key Food only lasted a few years here, and closed around 2015 or 2016. It was subdivided, with around 12,000 square feet of the space going to Dollar Tree and Shop Fair opening a tiny location of around 5600 square feet. You can tour that store here. Dollar Tree has closed, and the Shop Fair has expanded into its former space back to the full size of the original Key Food. As part of that expansion, it's also rebranding from Shop Fair to Pathmark Daily, though that transition is still very much in progress and they'll do an official grand opening once it's done.
This store hasn't yet appeared on the Pathmark website, and doesn't use the kind of standard Pathmark-style circular the other two locations do. Instead, it uses its own custom circular that's the same as what it had when it was a Shop Fair. It's also on a two-week sale cycle instead of one, and the circular so far is still advertising a mix of Best Yet (Allegiance/Pathmark) and Life Every Day (General Trading/Shop Fair) products. Inside, the expansion has brought some much-needed space and turned a kind of janky, crowded corner store into a much more complete supermarket.
Previously, produce, frozen, and dairy were all in the first aisle. Meat was on the back wall. Now, produce takes up the whole first aisle, which has been widened, with dairy at the back of the store and continuing into the expansion area. The original grocery aisles are basically intact, but new ones have been added behind and to the left of them. A service seafood counter has been added in the back, and a service deli is now on the front wall (they also do hot foods and hot sandwiches to order). In the front-left corner, much of the former Dollar Tree has been kept as general merchandise, with several aisles of nonfoods featuring everything from kitchenwares to bath towels to suitcases. Maybe that's a nod to the early days of the Pathmark Super Center, or more likely, it's a way to fill space when the operator is used to running a store a third of this one's size.
Work is still ongoing, so I imagine there'll be some more reshuffling and maybe some other changes, I'm not sure. It looks like the supermarket owners have left Dollar Tree's flooring in part of its former home.
All new refrigeration here, which is only logical since the previous setup was a fraction of the size and therefore a lot of refrigeration would have to be added anyway.
The new meat department is all the way at the back of the store along with service seafood, at the back of what used to be Dollar Tree.
One thing that still remains to be seen here is whether they'll install some Pathmark-inspired decor, as the other two Pathmark locations have. (All three are under separate ownership.) Clearly, there's some work still to be done, as I imagine this bare cinderblock wall isn't the permanent solution for this aisle...
Frozen foods are in a few places, and honestly the layout was somewhat complicated with multiple sets of aisles running in opposite directions. I assume this is the final layout, but we'll see if it makes more sense once the renovations are done -- which will, hopefully, include installing some aisle markers.
And here we enter the large general merchandise section, with aisles of items you might find at the average independent dollar or discount store here in New York City. My best guess is that the owners wanted to either fill space because the store is much larger than it used to be, or they wanted to try to keep the customers who used to come to Dollar Tree for non-food items.
Suitcases and office supplies and bath towels in Pathmark! What a world!
The store's (somewhat limited) selection of health and beauty items is also in this corner, along with an outside electronics vendor.
This store feels much quirkier than the other two Pathmarks, with all the idiosyncracies of these standard NYC independent supermarkets, while the other two feel much more like big-chain supermarkets. I'm not sure whether that's intentional (messing with the format to figure out what resonates with customers) or a decision left up to the owners, but to me this store seems to still have more in common with the other Shop Fair stores around the city than the other Pathmark locations.
New deli and newly-expanded front end looking great (and so spacious!) up at the front of the store. It's so nice to see such a big investment made in this store when it was so small and cramped before, and even more of a treat that it's doing so while bringing back the Pathmark brand to another neighborhood. I'm really curious to see what this is like when it's all done, and what that means about the future of Pathmark. For now, check out this weekend's other posts here!

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