The Market Report

That quintessential New York store - D'Agostino! Owned by the Red Apple Group, which also owns Gristedes, D'Ag is an Allegiance member. The black, red, and green color scheme is immediately recognizable across the city. This store is located at 1074 Lexington Ave at 76th St. Photographed August 2016

This Whole Foods Market is located down at 1551 3rd Ave at 87th St, south from 116th Street at the Fine Fare Supermarket . It opened in 2015 in what appears to be a former paint store (seems like it must have been expanded). I haven't been inside, but I do love this stereotypical New York City scene of the taxi driving through the intersection. Photographed July 2016

We're back in Harlem for today's store tour! What looks like a former exit door is now covered over (to the right of the entrance/exit door). For an idea of the layout, checkouts line the front wall. There is then an enormous concourse before the produce department. Aisles run parallel to the storefront with meat on the back wall. The deli/bakery is just out of frame to the left. The deli/bakery also includes a bakery counter with hot bread, which is a very nice touch we rarely see in stores. Oddly, the customer service counter is right next to the bread counter. It feels like the bread station was a much later addition as it doesn't exactly fit in with the rest of the store. Bakery and cheese in an island next to the deli, with produce just next to it. While the produce seemed to be alright for the most part, there was some confusing signage. Yep, no organic selection here. But sure, let's have that healthy life! Frozen foods run along t...

Today's Snapshot is a quick look at this Best Market location in Harlem. Not a huge fan of Best Market myself, but I do prefer it to LIDL, which has acquired the chain and is converting the existing locations to their own banner. I found this store to be overpriced and generally bland, and the prepared food I bought here (a cheese steak wrap) was rather disappointing. Anyway, the location is at 2187 Frederick Douglass Blvd, Manhattan. Photographed July 2016

We're seeing some interior photographs of the original Fairway Market here in Harlem at 2328 12th Ave in Harlem. You can see the exterior here , and I encourage you to wander around the store on Google Maps to get some context. While I haven't been a huge fan of Fairway's New Jersey locations, I somehow find the New York City locations much better. This particular one is an enormous warehouse piled high with lots and lots of relatively higher-end foods in a value setting. My photography is not great here, but I've chosen a few key pictures to give you a sense of the interior and turned it into a Look Inside from a full tour. Fairway has a much larger selection of health and beauty goods than most NYC supermarkets for sure. The deli and cheese area is in a separate room at the back of the store. Meats and seafood are located in a walk-in refrigerator room at the back of the store, along with dairy. I think these pictures definitely tell the story ...

Opened in October 2017, this new-build mixed-use building features a Luna Brothers-owned Key Food Supermarket on the ground floor. While unfortunately few interior photos are circulating online, there are a few here . Market Report contributor Laura E. sent in this exterior photo taken as she was walking by one night. As nice as the store looks (if a little bland), I do have to wonder why they went with that font for the lettering instead of the actual logo. Otherwise the store looks pretty good! It's located at 2630 Frederick Douglass Blvd. Photographed April 2019

A very large Key Food takes up the northern half of a city block along Broadway in Hudson Heights. Owned by Nick Valle, this store has been here since 1995. Unfortunately, I really have no idea of what this would have been before Key Food, so if anyone has any input, please let me know! It's located at 4365 Broadway, Manhattan, NY. Photographed July 2018

Yes, the sign does say "Coming Soon Exclusive Supermarket." My question is... who are they excluding? Is there a bouncer to get in? Or do you just have to know someone who knows someone who knows someone? I don't know, but either way, this store at 4490 Broadway is preparing to open as a Shop Fair now, as we can see in this picture posted to Facebook. No word on whether the store is open yet or if it's not, when it will be, but it was previously the Uptown Supermarket . Photographed July 2018

Formerly an Antillana Supermarket and then an Associated, this Food Universe Marketplace opened in 2014. Another Antillana-turned-Associated also became a Food Universe at the same time at the north end of Inwood, at 5069 Broadway. The Key Food cooperative developed the Food Universe banner specifically for conversions of stores brought on from Associated Food Holdings and White Rose/DiGiorgio (Met, Pioneer, Compare, and Associated). Approximately 30-40 of these stores were converted, primarily to the Food Universe banner, as White Rose entered bankruptcy and the two companies were consolidated into the present-day Associated Supermarket Group. This location is at 72 Nagle Ave, Manhattan.

Can anyone guess what this store used to be? Do I hear a... Pathmark? Ding ding ding! You got it! Moving on from Brooklyn, we're now tackling Manhattan, moving from the very north end of the borough (here in Inwood, which is very close to Marble Hill across the river and Kingsbridge just north), to the southern end. Inwood borders on suburban, allowing for this store to have a large parking lot. It's worth noting that the parking lot is also rented out to people who want to park long-term, so not all these cars are here for Associated. I visited early in the morning, so it was pretty empty. I'm not entirely sure how the Pathmark's layout would have been, but this store (at 35,000 square feet) resembles a smaller Pathmark's layout, so it's possible the layout hasn't been significantly changed. The decor, obviously does not! All of the decor and most of the fixtures have been redone. The produce department is significantly larger than what most Pathma...