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Update: Food Bazaar Supermarket - Brooklyn, NY

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: 2001 Owner:  Spencer An Previous Tenants:  Waldbaum's (opened 1988) > Big R (closed 2001) Cooperative:  none Location:  454 Wyckoff Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  February 13, 2026 Buckle up, folks, this is a long one. But I will do my best to make it an interesting post, because there's some interesting stuff happening here in Bushwick at the newly-remodeled Wyckoff Ave Food Bazaar ! The roughly 45,000 square foot store, originally a Waldbaum's in the 80s, has undergone a much-needed remodel. The outside doesn't look that different, but the inside is changed quite a bit. Let's take a look at a full before and after. The murals on the outside of this store now wrap around to the back, and there's new signage up advertising that this (along with a few other NYC Food Bazaars) is now open 24 hours. I was a bit puzzled by the enormous quantities of bottled water sitting in the parking lot, and even more so by the forklifts drivi...