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Old World Food Market Owner: Andrew Poma Jr. Opened:  2009 Cooperative:  none Location:  40 NY-59, Nyack, NY Photographed:  March 8, 2023 Welcome to the Old World Food Market of Nyack! This spectacular store is actually just 15,000 square feet, although it feels much larger -- and built around a 9,000 square foot or so barrel-roof building. I'm not positive what the building was originally, as it has some characteristics that resemble an A&P, but there was also definitely an A&P across the street -- and both were built between 1953 and 1964. Old World Food Market opened up here in 2009 after a gorgeous renovation to turn the space into a roomy gourmet supermarket. We enter in the front right corner of the store to bakery and prepared foods on the right side of the store. Massive hot and cold food bars line the left side of that aisle. Meat and seafood counters are at the back of the first aisle, with dairy and frozen in the rest of the back part of the stor...

Rockland Great Farm Owner: unknown Opened:  2016 under current ownership; 2003 previously Cooperative:  none Location:  406 Nanuet Mall S, Nanuet, NY Photographed:  August 12, 2022 Welcome to the Rockland Great Farm! The rather unassuming 5,000 square foot greengrocer shop actually has a very exciting secret hiding inside it. Before we get there, the store is mostly a produce market, with produce taking up most of the sales floor and a small, apparently closed seafood counter in the back left corner. A small grocery, dairy, and frozen selection is on the left side of the store. Can anyone spot the supermarket history here? That's right, this store somehow has an original Grand Union Clean, Fresh & Good ceiling fixture in it! It's an incredibly difficult thing to photograph, but a really impressive one. This was my first time seeing one in person. It's amazingly well preserved! How many others still exist out there? This is the only one I can think of off the top...

  Welcome (back) to Rockland County! This is now our third time here, having visited before with a selection of stores across the county, but this time we'll be seeing all different stores we've never checked out before, including some new ones. We'll start in Suffern in the southwestern part of the county, then pass through Spring Valley, Nanuet, and Nyack along route 59 on our way east to the Hudson River, which separates Rockland County from its eastern neighbor Westchester County. Then we're turning north and moving inland a bit for Pomona and Garnerville, then along the river for Haverstraw, West Haverstraw, and Stony Point. This county has a large Orthodox Jewish population, as does much of the Hudson Valley, so we'll be seeing some kosher stores along with a variety of other supermarkets around the towns. We'll begin tomorrow with a former supermarket on  Grocery Archaeology !

Geraci's Market Owner: Andres Garcia Opened:  2001 under current ownership Cooperative:  Krasdale Foods Location:  16 Mill St, Newburgh, NY Photographed:  November 22, 2023 Welcome to downtown Newburgh! The city, right on the Hudson River, is around 50 miles north of New York City. We saw the Adams and the Market Fresh outside of town recently, and now we're taking a look at two small stores in downtown Newburgh. Geraci's Market has been here in Newburgh for a long time, although I couldn't find an exact opening year -- but the sign alone tells us it's been a long time. It's been under its current ownership since 2001. The store looks to be about 4,000 square feet, and inside, it hasn't been changed for many decades, I'm sure. Frozen foods, meat, and produce are in the first aisle, with a tiny butcher window on the right side (you can see the space where it is below). Packaged meats and refrigerated produce line the back wall, with a few grocery aisle...

Tashkent Supermarket Owner: Odiljon Tursunov Opening:  2024 Cooperative:  none Location:  378 6th Ave, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  January 29, 2024 It was March 2023. I was out in Brooklyn on the subway around Crown Heights and an older man walks onto my subway car, which wasn't that crowded. Turns out another older guy on the subway was an old friend of his and they get to talking. Naturally, they are not sitting anywhere near each other and are all but yelling across the subway car to each other in the thickest New York accents you can picture. As a bonus, they both seem to be just a little bit hard of hearing. They're talking about someone's birthday, I think, and then talk about going out to dinner for the party. The conversation then switches to food, so naturally I start eavesdropping. They eventually get to the subject of food shopping, and are swapping supermarket recommendations. One talks about getting vegetables at Western Beef, I thin...

Market Fresh Supermarket Owner: Diego Sanchez Opened:  2002 as Associated; 2018 as Market Fresh Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Services Location:  52 NY-17K, Newburgh, NY Photographed:  November 22, 2023 Welcome to the Market Fresh of Newburgh! It's just a bit east of yesterday's Adams Fairacre Farms , but a very different supermarket. If Adams is a sprawling gourmet market and garden center, Market Fresh is a compact but well-appointed straightforward supermarket. Then again, at 30,500 square feet, it's not exactly small, but the 80,000 square foot Adams complex dwarfs it. There are three Market Fresh stores affiliated with Allegiance Retail Services (which also runs Foodtown , Pathmark , and Green Way stores), the other two being in Poughkeepsie 16 miles or so north of here, and Middletown , about as far west. All three were previously Associated Supermarkets, then joined Allegiance and switched to Market Fresh in 2018. This one here in Newburgh recently got a ...