The Market Report

Food Dynasty Opened: March 2026 Owner:  Numan Abuzahrieh Previous Tenants:  Shop Smart Supermarket (closed ca. 2015) > Compare Food Price (ca. 2015-ca. 2020) Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  1039 Castleton Ave, Staten Island, NY Photographed:  March 6, 2026 Last spring, we saw the new CTown on Castleton Avenue on Staten Island, owned by Adam Abuzarieh. The store was just 6000 square feet but an attractive, well-appointed neighborhood supermarket. Now, just eight blocks east, another Abuzarieh has opened another attractive, well-appointed neighborhood supermarket. But this one is even smaller: the new Food Dynasty on Castleton is just 5000 square feet. (A side note here: while public records indicate the owner of this store is Numan Abuzarieh, I don't know for certain whether Numan is related to Adam.) This space has been a grocery store for years (it was once a kitchen showroom) but the past grocers here have been more like bodegas than full superma...

Happy Sunday, and welcome to a detailed look at some of the work the Associated Supermarket Group -- or ASG -- has been up to lately! Yesterday I posted about a lot of recent news, so don't miss that lengthy post here . ASG is the Long Island-based cooperative behind Associated, Met, Pioneer, and Compare Foods stores. Today's ASG is only a little over 10 years old, as it was formed by merging the retail arm of DiGiorgio (Met and Pioneer) with Associated Food Holdings (Associated and Compare) in 2014 when DiGiorgio and White Rose, which supplied all of the above, went under. They lost a lot of stores in 2014 when the wholesalers were struggling, with the vast majority going to Key Food under the Food Universe brand and others. And ASG, owned by private equity until 2021, struggled to recover from the turmoil of their primary wholesaler going under and approximately a quarter or more of their stores leaving the cooperative. During most of that time, Key Food was the major mover a...

Lincoln Market Opened: December 2024 Owner:  Khalid Innab Previous Tenants:  none; supermarket previously on property Cooperative:  ASG Location:  210 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: June 20, 2025 When you see today's first post is a Lincoln Market, you know it's gonna be good. The small chain of New York City supermarkets, which grew from a single location in Propsect Lefferts Gardens on Lincoln Place, has made a name for itself in three of the five boroughs with modern and upscale supermarkets. But they're not gourmet stores -- they have high-end selections but also the basics, and they tend to have a good blend of specialty and everyday items. Most recently, I posted their new location in a former Rite Aid in Greenwich Village. That store opened in August of last year, and last November, they cut the ribbon on their brand-new Prospect Lefferts Gardens location. This one is about half a mile southeast of the original Lincoln Place location, but in the s...