The Market Report

Kalam's Bazaar Opened: August 31, 2026 Owner: MD Kalam Previous Tenants:  non-grocery tenants Cooperative: Associated Supermarket Group Location: 69 Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: September 4, 2026 Last summer, a South Asian supermarket called Kalam's Bazaar opened in Ozone Park, Queens in a former dollar store. Now, the same company is behind a revitalization of this previously vacant storefront along Kensington, Brooklyn's Church Avenue corridor with a large South Asian population in the area (and several South Asian and halal supermarkets around). At a bit under 6000 square feet, this location is smaller than the Ozone Park one. The interior is very similar to the Ozone Park location, but the layout is a bit different. Produce is on the right side with a butcher counter and packaged meats at the back. Frozen meat and fish are in the back-left corner with the rest of frozen and dairy in the last aisle on the left side. This location feels more cramped than t...

Shop Fresh Food Marketplace Opened: April 10, 2026 Owner:  Neidy Marte Previous Tenants:  A&P (closed between 1977 and 1980) > Pioneer (ca. early 1980s) > furniture store > Rite Aid Cooperative:  Associated Supermarket Group Location:  4159 White Plains Rd, Bronx, NY Photographed:  April 24, 2026 Another new opening from ASG (see these two yesterday) is this Shop Fresh Food Marketplace, the fifth Shop Fresh store and latest addition to the growing cooperative. This was a former Rite Aid -- I know, big surprise there -- of around 10,000 square feet, but it was actually built as an A&P. In the early 1980s, it became a Pioneer. Pioneer is now part of ASG, so in a way they're returning to the space they once occupied (different store owners, of course). Produce is in the first aisle on the left side of the store, with dairy on the back wall. Frozen is in the second-to-last aisle on the right side, and meat is in the last aisle with service butche...

Met Fresh Supermarket Opened: April 10, 2026 Owner:  Danny Hamdan Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Associated Supermarket Group Location:  340 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  April 17, 2026 There are 18 Met Foods stores in and around New York City, and while the chain is much smaller than it once was with dozens of locations, it's started to grow again recently. That's thanks in large part to the Hamdan family's new stores, which are popping up around the city under the Met Fresh brand. (In fact, seven of the 18 Met stores are owned by the family.) Most recently, Danny Hamdan opened a gorgeous Met Fresh in a former Rite Aid in lower Manhattan, but the stores are around Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens (plus one on the way in Philadelphia). One of them is even about two and a half miles east on Myrtle Avenue, the same street this is on. Like the others, this isn't a particularly large supermarket, though at 11,000 square feet it's not tiny either. ...