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Riverdale Kosher Market Owner:  Elisha Block Opened:  2011 under current ownership Cooperative:  none Location:  5683 Riverdale Ave, Riverdale, Bronx, NY Photographed:  March 2019 If Key Food anchors the southern end of the Skyview Shopping Center, the Riverdale Kosher Market anchors the north end. It's actually in the basement of the building at the north end, meaning it's at street level of the cross street and not Riverdale Avenue. It seems that the two stores' target markets are different enough that they can peacefully coexist. Plus, Riverdale Kosher looks a lot nicer . Repeating this picture from the Key Food post to show the stores' proximity. If you zoom in to the top of the beige building at the far right, you can see the sign for Riverdale Kosher Market. And on that note, we finish up not only our coverage of Riverdale, but of all of the Bronx -- and all of New York City! -- for the time being. Don't worry, we still have lots an...

This group of stores coming up next is actually areas we've seen before. For one, we've extensively covered the  northwestern Bronx , though we'll be seeing Spuyten Duyvil, which is kind of northwest of Marble Hill (see  here ); and Riverdale to the northwest of the  store we've already seen . Then we're crossing over into Yonkers, which we've seen previously ( if only briefly! ), for some more extensive coverage. Stay tuned as we start with Grocery Archaeology tomorrow!