The Market Report

Tashkent Supermarket Opened: March 6, 2025 Owner:  Odiljon Tursunov Previous Tenants:  Duane Reade Cooperative:  none Location:  378 6th Ave, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  April 11, 2025 If the Wegmans opening at Astor Place , Manhattan's first Wegmans, was the most-anticipated supermarket opening in the borough of the last five years, Tashkent's arrival in the West Village must be the second-most-anticipated. The diminutive supermarket is only about 5000 square feet (plus storage and prep space in the basement, it seems) but drew attention from publications like Eater New York and New York Magazine's Grub Street , with Hell Gate calling the store "worth the wait" (after warning that "The Prepared Food at the New Astor Place Wegmans Is Awful" ). And the new spot, beloved by local foodies -- and tourists, of course, as I've come across it on various influencers' socials) -- earns the distinction of being the only Uzbek supermarket in Manhattan. ...

This D'Agostino is a perfectly acceptable supermarket, though nothing special. It's in better shape than most of the D'Agostinos I've been to, and the building is certainly more interesting. It looks like the lower brick building to the left (the store now extends into the two-story building on the right) might be a very old supermarket, maybe an early location of the D'Agostino chain. This store, located at 790 Greenwich St, Manhattan, has some amazing sales. Excuse me, amazig. D'Agostino always has high prices, but I think it's worth considering they're one of the very few supermarkets that actually operates in the neighborhoods they're in. But not in the way you might think -- they run stores in some of the most affluent (and highest-rent) neighborhoods of Manhattan, meaning that all the lower-cost stores have been driven out of business by rising rents. So I don't think it's particularly helpful to say that Food Bazaar usually has ...