The Market Report

Kalam's Bazaar Opened:  August 2025 Owner:  M. Z. Kalam Previous Tenants:  99 Cent Paradise / Aaron's Cooperative:  Associated Supermarket Group Location:  98-01 Liberty Ave, Ozone Park, Queens, NY Photographed:  September 9, 2025 I've now written at length about the recent surge in new store openings under the Associated Supermarket Group, and this weekend, we're seeing two more that they've recently added in southeastern Queens. From 2010 to about 2022, ASG had a small Compare Foods  at the busy corner of Rockaway Bouelvard and Liberty Avenue. In 2022, that store left ASG and joined Key Food, becoming a Food Universe Marketplace. Three years later, ASG has returned to the area with a brand-new store a block east. And this isn't your typical supermarket: a former dollar store has been combined with the space of a former Aaron's rent-to-own store, totalling 9000 square feet now used as a stylish new halal supermarket called Kalam's Bazaar. This area h...

This 6100 square foot supermarket opened ca. 2010 in what was probably a supermarket previously, but was vacant at the time. Like many major arteries through New York City's outer boroughs (and northern Manhattan), Liberty Ave has an elevated subway running above it. This store is located at 96-09 Liberty Ave, Ozone Park, NY. Photographed December 2018

Our next group of neighborhoods is just to the west of what we saw in southern Jamaica. We're heading into what might be considered central Ozone Park, then into Howard Beach, a relatively isolated mostly residential neighborhood of southwestern Queens, and finally right over the border into Brooklyn for East New York! Come back tomorrow for a Snapshot in Ozone Park.