The Independent Edition

Community Green Market Owner:  Jae Hyun (Angie) Park Opened:  2011 Cooperative:  none Location:  2228 White Plains Rd, Allerton, Bronx, NY Photographed:  March 2019 This grocery store opened in 2011 replacing a greengrocer called Green Land. Community Green Market sells natural and organic groceries, produce, and seafood. It's worth noting that this store is just two doors down from the very first store we saw on The Independent Edition, the Food Choice Market . This store is about 3600 square feet.

Our next group of stores in the Bronx is along White Plains Road! We start at the southern part of the neighborhood of Allerton, following White Plains Road (a major through street) through  Williamsbridge , Olinville, and Wakefield, seeing eight stores along that stretch. White Plains Road, by the way, starts at the far south end of  Soundview , extending past the Bronx Botanical Garden, becoming 1st Street when it crosses into  Mount Vernon , then finally petering out and ending just north of the former  Western Beef in Mount Vernon . We're only traveling along a small fraction of the street's length, but we'll be starting tomorrow with a snapshot right here on The Independent Edition!

Food Choice Market Owner:  Luis Franco Opened:  2014 Cooperative:  Associated Supermarket Group Location: 2244 White Plains Rd, Bronx, NY Photographed:  July 2018 and March 2019 Welcome to our first post here on The Independent Edition! Going forward, we'll be featuring here independent stores, generally with five or fewer locations. This particular location in the Bronx seems to be to be a single-store operation. I don't believe there's any affiliation with the Food Choice Market at 1325 Springfield Ave in Irvington, NJ. I don't know this location's history, but it likely was a chain supermarket from the 1950s. By 2007, it had become a CTown, matching in design the Associated at  1585 Westchester Ave  and, a little oddly, the CTown at  100 Hugh J. Grant Circle . It does appear, however, that Luis Franco owns both this Food Choice and the Associated. (My research suggests that the CTown is owned by a different person.) The store i...