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Update: Food Bazaar Supermarkets

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened:  1999 Owner:  Spencer An Previous Tenants:  Waldbaum's (1991-mid 1990s) Cooperative:  none Location:  238 E 161st St, Bronx, NY Photographed:  September 19, 2023 and March 20, 2026 My love of Food Bazaar is well-documented , so there aren't that many of the NYC-based chain's stores that I haven't posted yet. This location is one, though -- located at Concourse Plaza in the Bronx just blocks from Yankee Stadium, an approximately 60,000 square foot store. It was built as a Waldbaum's in 1991, but Waldbaum's didn't last long and closed within a few years. Food Bazaar opened in the late 1990s, according to public records it looks like it was specifically 1999. I really don't know what the Waldbaum's was like, but it was still so new when Food Bazaar moved in there probably wasn't a whole lot to do. I don't know what the renovation history here was, but it's just gotten another renovation and held its grand reop...