The Market Report

Foodtown Opened: October 2, 2026 Owner: Fouad Elayyan Previous Tenants: Rite Aid Cooperative: Allegiance Retail Services Location: 960 Halsey St, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: October 7, 2026 We are here in Bushwick to round out this weekend's news coverage -- or maybe, depending on the order you're reading this in, we're just getting started. Either way, let's tour this brand-new Foodtown, built in a former Rite Aid at the corner of Halsey and Broadway. After a real slump, Allegiance is back at it with several notable openings . In addition, Village Marketplace over in South Orange has joined, and when I visited most recently it was looking great (and busy) around a year after its opening. The cooperative is also apparently in discussions to add a fourth Pathmark , this time in Delaware . With all of this activity, it's clear that the group is firmly out of its slump and charging ahead. This 15,000 square foot store joins two other Bushwick Foodtowns. One is com...

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...