The Market Report

The Waban Market Opened: 1986 under current ownership; ca. 1950s previously Owner:  Yan Kaganov Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  10 Windsor Rd, Waban, MA Photographed:  January 12, 2025 Right off the bat, you can tell these pictures weren't from the summer of 2019! Sure, you can point to the better picture quality or the fact that, if you go into the file's metadata, you can see it was taken with a cell phone that quite literally didn't exist in 2019. But most obvious -- here we're seeing the Waban Market with a light coating of snow, which certainly wasn't happening in the summer of 2019 when I visited other stores nearby . The Waban Market dates back to the 1950s, when it was constructed in the village of Waban within the town of Newton. The store is small but has been expanded over time, growing from its original size of just 2000 square feet to its present 7000 square feet. I've mentioned that there's an Eastern European communit...

That's a wrap on Brookline! It was a quick visit, no doubt -- I'd love to return and get more pictures of some of the stores, and visit the Maruichi -- but for now, it'll have to do. Navigate the area with the map below! Coming Up Next Just west of Brookline and Allston/Brighton are a few other suburbs. Newton is right along the Mass Pike west of Boston (which, in that area, runs alongside the Framingham Worcester MBTA rail line). Chestnut Hill is a small, green residential town next to Brookline and Needham is a bit west of that. I've visited many, but not all, of the supermarkets in this area (my coverage is spotty the farther out from Boston and the train line you get). We're going to start in Chestnut Hill right near the Brookline border, then a stop in Needham and then through the Newton Highlands area. We'll pass through Newton Centre and Waban in the central area of Newton, then to Auburndale to the northwest, and finally end up in Newtonville in the no...