The Market Report

Metro Acres Market Opened: March 13, 2026 Owner:  Ennis and Rowhie Said Previous Tenants:  Rite Aid Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group/General Trading Location:  81 1st Ave, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  April 17, 2026 I hope everyone's doing well! I myself have been very busy, so I've been behind in both visiting new stores and posting about them. (Don't worry, no interruptions to the regularly scheduled programming .) So now I'm trying to catch up -- but I'm sitting on more than a dozen newsworthy stores that I've been to but haven't posted about yet. Let's start to fix that with this weekend's NYC posts! You may recall this closed East Village Rite Aid, which hadn't yet gotten a brand when I posted about it back in December . Turns out, it's a Metro Acres Market -- one of only three under the brand, joining locations on the Lower East Side and in Schuylerville (there was previously another in Washington Heights that became a Fine Fare )....

Metro Acres Market Opened:  early July 2025 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Crest > Big V > Drug Palace > Rite Aid > Walgreens Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  3085 E Tremont Ave, Bronx, NY Photographed:  July 18, 2025 I've returned to the new Metro Acres Market in Schuylerville, the Bronx to visit the store after its opening! My unfortunately-timed last visit was just days before it actually opened. The store is only 8300 square feet, so it's pretty small, and although it was most recently a Rite Aid-turned-Walgreens, it started out as a Crest supermarket, later a Big V. As I mentioned on that post, the store was apparently originally slated to be a Fine Fare, but it switched to Metro Acres prior to opening. And as I mentioned, there seems to be not much difference between those brands. You enter on the left side of the storefront to the grand aisle, with deli/bakery on the left side and produce on the right side. Meat and ref...

Metro Acres Market Opened: July 2025 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Crest > Big V > Drug Palace > Rite Aid > Walgreens Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  3085 E Tremont Ave, Bronx, NY Photographed:  June 30, 2025 A disclaimer: this post is shorter than I'd want it to be. Last weekend, Metro Acres Market opened up here in the Schuylerville neighborhood in the eastern Bronx, but unfortunately I haven't been here since the store actually opened. I visited shortly before it opened, however, and so we'll see the store in the final days of its construction before it opened. This 8300 square foot building was almost certainly built as a supermarket, operating as a Crest Supermarket by the late 1960s and by the 1970s it was Big V (not sure if it was related to the ShopRite-affiliated chain in the Hudson Valley called Big V, but I assume not). By 1985, it had become a drugstore called Drug Palace. It was later a Rite Aid and then a Walgreens. ...

Fine Fare Gold Opened: Spring 2025 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Safeway > assorted non-grocery tenants > Metro Acres Market Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  4188 Broadway, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  April 7, 2025 After opening last October , the small Metro Acres Market just across from the George Washington Bridge in Washington Heights has rebranded. I don't know if it's been sold or just changed its name, but it's now a Fine Fare Gold supermarket. Fine Fare Gold is apparently the branding they're using for higher-end stores, and this is the only one currently but another is in progress in Inwood , about 15 blocks north. The store looks basically the same inside, and I couldn't detect any significant difference in product selection. Both Metro Acres and Fine Fare are part of the same cooperative and supplied by the same warehouse -- General Trading -- so I don't really know the reason for the change. Even stranger is that there's...

Metro Acres Market Opened: October 25, 2024 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Rite Aid Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  4188 Broadway, Washington Heights, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  November 13, 2024 Across the Harlem River and about 20 blocks north of the LIDL we're seeing today at the Bronx Terminal Market , we've returned to Metro Acres Market's newest location in Washington Heights! I first learned this store was under construction by chance , just passing by, then returned to check on the construction . The small store, formerly a Rite Aid, opened on October 25 as Metro Acres' second location. As I pointed out last time, it has the same decor package as the Fine Fare diagonally across the street (and you can see the GWB Market/Mercado in the background of the above picture, the mall built above interstate 95 at the base of the George Washington Bridge, which is home to the Fine Fare). But it doesn't appear to share the same owners as the Fi...