The Market Report

Finishing up our coverage of Harlem and Washington Heights with Nishay B.'s picture of this store a little bit south of INT-95, which coincidentally is the store that Krasdale uses to represent all Bravos on Google Maps . The 5300 square foot store is rumored to be replaced by a multiuse development by the Castellana group, owners of Western Beef , and is set to have a Western Beef on the ground floor. I haven't heard any more about the project and the "coming soon" page on the Western Beef website that included that and a few other locations has been entirely removed, so I don't know whether that is still in the works. It's located at 4138 Broadway. Photographed February 2020

Shop Fair Supermarkets Opened: 2019 Owner: Luis Corona Previous Tenants: Compare Foods > Associated Cooperative: Retail Grocers Group Location: 159-04 Harlem River Dr, Manhattan, NY Photographed: July 23, 2021 Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted in July 2020, but was rewritten with new photos in July 2026. Now for the post! This supermarket is located in the southeast corner of the expansive, 8-acre Ralph J. Rangel public housing complex, and to the north of another complex. It was previously an Associated and before that, a Compare Foods. The switch to Shop Fair didn't involve anything more substantial than a banner over the Associated awning. Deli is immediately inside the entrance on the left side, with produce and cold cuts lining the rest of the left-side wall of the store. Meats are on the back wall, with frozen and dairy on the right side. Inside, the store still feels extremely old-school if generally well-maintained. I would estimate the...

CTown Supermarkets Opened: 1990 Owner: Jaime Luna Previous Tenants:  Sloan's (open in 1970s) Cooperative: Krasdale Location: 3632 Broadway, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  August 2, 2021 Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted in July 2020, but was rewritten with new photos in July 2026. Now for the post! About four blocks north of yesterday's Key Food we see another supermarket. And, like the Key Food, this 9700 square foot store is owned by Jaime Luna. This store got an interior renovation not too long before I photographed it, and it was looking very spiffy. Deli is in the front-left corner right inside the entrance, with produce in the rest of the first aisle and meat on the back wall. Dairy and frozen are on the right side of the store in the last aisle and there's a few short aisles in the front-right corner of natural foods. CTown has been here since 1990, and prior to that, it was a Sloan's (part of a local chain). Not sure when Sloan...

Key Food Supermarkets Opened: 2013 Owner: Jaime Luna Previous Tenants:  CTown (1998-2013) Cooperative: Key Food Stores Location:  3550 Broadway, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  August 2, 2021 Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted in July 2020, but was rewritten with new photos in July 2026. Now for the post! Hamilton Heights, in upper Manhattan just below Washington Heights, is home to two major supermarkets and both appear to be owned by Jaime Luna. In addition to this Key Food, which was a CTown for around 15 years, there's a CTown four blocks north. This store is around the same size as the CTown, measuring around 10,000 square feet. The layout is very similar, too, with deli just inside the entrance on the left, produce lining the rest of the first aisle, meat on the back wall, and dairy/frozen in the last aisle. Though this store seems to be right around the same size as the CTown, it definitely feels much smaller. Still, you can see some si...

Fine Fare Supermarkets Opened: 2010 Owner: Rudy Fuertes Previous Tenants:  Pioneer (closed 2007) Cooperative: Retail Grocers Group Location: 2497 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  January 9, 2020 and August 2, 2021 The former Roosevelt Theater was at some point converted to a Pioneer Supermarket, which closed in 2007 before being opened as a Fine Fare in 2010. It's around 15,000 square feet, so on the bigger side for Harlem, but competes with a much larger Pathmark-turned-Foodtown a block west. Rudy Fuertes, who also owns a handful of other Fine Fare locations in the Bronx and Manhattan, owns this store. It looks like Pioneer was under different ownership. Don't forget to say hi to Teddy Roosevelt, whose bust remains on the storefront as a relic from the Roosevelt Theater days. You enter on the left side of the store to produce in the first aisle. Meat lines the back wall, with frozen in the second-to-last aisle and dairy in the last aisle...