The Market Report

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: 2024 Owner: Spencer An Previous Tenants: Pathmark (1970-2015) > Stop & Shop (2015-2024) Cooperative: none Location:  2965 Cropsey Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: July 15, 2026 It's time to return (yes, again, but hopefully for the last time for a while) to the Cropsey Avenue Food Bazaar. Since Food Bazaar acquired this store from Stop & Shop in September 2024, they've slowly but surely redone it from floor to ceiling. You can get a sense of just how extensive the changes are by comparing how Stop & Shop looked shortly before it closed to the pictures in this post, though I've been posting all throughout the renovation process. Now, the store is officially done and has held its grand opening while also extending its hours to 24/7. Okay, so generally when Food Bazaar has done grand openings recently, they hand out a handy little diagram of the layout. I didn't see any when I visited this store, so we make do with my ef...

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: May 28, 2026 Owner: Spencer An Previous Tenants: none; Finast (closed ca. 1980) > CTown (1981-early 1990s) > Pioneer (late 1990s) > Food Bazaar (ca. late 1990s-2023) previously on property Cooperative:  none Location:  34-20 Junction Blvd, Corona, NY Photographed: May 29, 2026 and May 30, 2026 Welcome back to Jackson Heights (or Corona -- we're right on the border here). It's been a long time, but way back in January 2020, I posted the Food Bazaar that was here, a roughly 25,000 square foot store with a large parking lot. The store was pretty nice, but old -- in fact, it was built back around 1960 as a Finast. By 1981, it had become a CTown. Now, in 1988, Francis An had opened a CTown in a former Waldbaum's about a mile south. At some point, he also took over this CTown, and in the late 1990s, both stores became Pioneers, I believe along with one in New Jersey . By around 2000, they left CTown and were rebranded Food Bazaar, be...