The Market Report

Ideal Fresh of Rossville Opened:  Summer 2022 Owner:  Mike Virga Previous Tenants:  Mignosi's Supermarket Cooperative:  America's Food Basket Location:  1006 Rossville Ave, Staten Island, NY Photographed:  August 1, 2022; November 7, 2024; and April 14, 2025 In Rosebank, the Top Tomato supermarket was acquired by new owners and rebranded with a big renovation. Here in Rossville -- across the island, nine miles southwest -- the same deal has happened with an old-school Mignosi's Supermarket. (And hey, the Foodtown we're also seeing today was previously a Mignosi's!) I don't know when Mignosi's originally opened the roughly 7000 square foot supermarket, but it was sold in 2006 but remained Mignosi's -- or Miggy's, as it was affectionately called. It was the last Mignosi's to stay in business on Staten Island, and the chain previously also had locations in Sunnyside (now the Foodtown), Westerleigh (now Beyar's), and Bulls Head (now Lander Mar...

Ideal Fresh Market Owner: German Diaz Opened:  2014 Previous Tenants:  Morley's Supermarket Cooperative:  America's Food Basket Location:  779 Yonkers Ave, Yonkers, NY Photographed:  April 14, 2023 Contributor:  Laura E. Welcome to our first Westchester County store, and thank you to our contributor Laura E. for sending in her photo of this store! This Ideal Fresh Market is around 5500 square feet, and one of two Ideal stores in Yonkers, which is just north of the Bronx. We saw the second Ideal store a while ago. For many decades, this was Morley's Supermarket, then Morley's NSA in 2009. In 2014, it became an Ideal Fresh Market. The store looks small but well-appointed from the limited interior photos available online, and it looks slightly more upscale than the other Yonkers Ideal location. There is, of course, a lot we're not seeing here in Yonkers and the southern part of Westchester county, but we do have a little bit in Mount Vernon over the next fe...