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Fine Fare Supermarkets Opened: August 13, 2025 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  non-grocery tenants Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  4650 Broadway, Inwood, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  September 12, 2025 We're back in the Big Apple for today's posts! The Market Report's first stop is way up in Inwood, the farthest-north neighborhood in Manhattan, to check out a brand-new Fine Fare Supermarket. Like the one at Broadway and 178th, about 20 blocks south, this one is branded Fine Fare Gold. It's in the ground floor of a new development in a historic building . The Packard Building is all but unrecognizable today, with a residential tower extending many floors above it and an approximately 16,000 square foot Fine Fare at the base. (Note that that's an extremely rough estimate, and I don't actually know just how large this store is.) Similar to the Fordham Heights Fine Fare , this one is modern, spacious, and almost suburban-feeling while being in an i...

Fine Fare Gold Opened: Spring 2025 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Safeway > assorted non-grocery tenants > Metro Acres Market Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  4188 Broadway, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  April 7, 2025 After opening last October , the small Metro Acres Market just across from the George Washington Bridge in Washington Heights has rebranded. I don't know if it's been sold or just changed its name, but it's now a Fine Fare Gold supermarket. Fine Fare Gold is apparently the branding they're using for higher-end stores, and this is the only one currently but another is in progress in Inwood , about 15 blocks north. The store looks basically the same inside, and I couldn't detect any significant difference in product selection. Both Metro Acres and Fine Fare are part of the same cooperative and supplied by the same warehouse -- General Trading -- so I don't really know the reason for the change. Even stranger is that there's...