The Market Report

Met Fresh Supermarket Opened:  February 20, 2026 Owner:  Danny Hamdan Previous Tenants:  Bohack > Rite Aid Cooperative:  Associated Supermarket Group Location:  7 Madison St, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  February 27, 2026 New York City has a lot of laws. But one that must be on the books somewhere, although I can't seem to find when City Council passed it, is that every time a drugstore closes in the city, it must be replaced by a supermarket. I've stopped even trying to keep count of how many new supermarkets have opened up in former drugstores, and in fact I'm running out of ways to introduce these posts because they've been so frequent (and yeah, we're really on the bottom of the barrel comedy material here. Bear with me, I'm tired). Okay, regaining focus here: what's not  bottom-of-the-barrel in any way is the stunning new Met Fresh Supermarket in Two Bridges, in far Lower Manhattan. And when I say far Lower Manhattan, I mean 1300 feet to the Ea...

Brooklyn Fare Opened: May 3, 2024 Owner:  Moe Issa Previous Tenants:  none; Pathmark previously on this site Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  227 Cherry St, Two Bridges, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  May 6, 2024 Last Friday, Key Food opened two new stores, a Food Universe in Passaic ( here's my post from a while ago when it was slated to be a SuperFresh) and this Brooklyn Fare. It's located in way southern Manhattan, at One Manhattan Square just next to the Manhattan Bridge. This development replaced a Pathmark (can you imagine that, a Manhattan supermarket with a parking lot?!) that closed over ten years ago, and while the Brooklyn Fare is smaller than the Pathmark was at 25,000 square feet, it's Brooklyn Fare's largest location and their most mainstream-feeling, in my opinion. While some of their other locations feel a bit like a gourmet market with some supermarket touches thrown in, this one decidedly feels like a supermarket with some gourmet to...