The Market Report

Caribbean Supermarket Owner: Jong Hwang Opened:  1997 Cooperative:  none Location:  223 W 1st St, Mount Vernon, NY Photographed:  December 8, 2023 Mount Vernon is one of the cities in far southern Westchester County like Yonkers, and actually here we're so far south in Westchester County that we're only about two and a half blocks from the Bronx. This Caribbean Supermarket is around 5,000 square feet but built around a building of about 3900 square feet, with the rest being in this somewhat tentlike expansion in the front. There are two aisles of produce in that expansion area, then three more aisles in the main supermarket, with dairy in the front one (they run side to side) and meat and seafood at the back. The registers are on the left side of the store. Despite what it looks like in my exterior picture, there is actually a sign that says Caribbean Supermarket that faces the street. There also used to be a second location in Mount Vernon, at 333 S Fulton Ave , t...

An Associated Supermarket opened in part of a former BMW car dealership at 416 Morris Ave in 2011, and it later switched to Bravo. Soon thereafter, it became an independent store known as Caribbean Supermarket -- but interestingly, kept its Bravo sign, which it still proudly displays to this day. What we're looking at in this rather bad picture is actually mostly the liquor store, with the supermarket entrance visible to the far right. I got this shot because you can see the Bravo logo still up. When I visited very briefly years ago, the store was in pretty sad shape, but I returned to pick up a circular maybe a year ago and they had really fixed up the place, got a new logo and circular design, and stocked all the shelves nicely. Maybe new owners. Photographed July 2016 (holy cow, that's three years ago already)