The Market Report

Freshtown Marketplace Opened:  February 21, 2025 Owner:  PSK Supermarkets Previous Tenants:  Big Lots Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Location:  59 N Plank Rd, Newburgh, NY Photographed:  February 26, 2025 Welcome to the latest store from Allegiance Retail! The cooperative, which primarily runs Foodtown stores, has been on a bit of an expansion kick lately, and this new store in the Hudson Valley city of Newburgh is the most recent example. Newburgh actually already has a store affiliated with Allegiance, the Market Fresh on route 17K , which is under different ownership. This Freshtown is owned by PSK Supermarkets, a company started in the Bronx by Paul Sydney Katz (hence PSK) and later expanding outside the city. Today, it's employee-owned but still run by a member of the Katz family. The roughly 25,000 square foot store isn't huge, but it's a good size and has extensive selections despite being much smaller than the 72,000 square foot Market 32 practic...

Probably the largest supermarket in Bay Ridge is this PSK Supermarkets-owned Foodtown. By the way, the name PSK comes from the founder's name, Paul Sidney Katz. The original PSK was located in the Bronx at 885 Gerard Ave, and Noah Katz runs the business today. The Foodtown of Bay Ridge is actually a two-floor supermarket, with standard produce, bakery/deli, meat/seafood, dairy, frozen, and grocery goods on the first floor. The second floor contains a health food store with a large selection of natural and organic foods, dairy, and frozen, as well as HABA, vitamins, and supplements. I don't typically love separating natural and organic products, but in this case, it makes sense for the space. The Foodtown is a pretty imposing presence here on 3rd Ave and it's even equipped with its own private parking lot. You can clearly see where the second-floor health food store, called Foodtown Naturally , is located. From any point of view, the Foodtown is an impressive p...