The Independent Edition

Fresh King Market Owner:  Ho Pil Lee Opened:  1989 Cooperative:  Krasdale Location:  9 Knolls Crescent, Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, NY Photographed:  March 2020 Fresh King Market is just a few doors down from Ben's Market in the single commercial strip in Spuyten Duyvil, and is a small grocery store/greengrocer that sells produce, grocery, frozen, and dairy, but no meat or seafood. A nice place, and actually slightly larger than Ben's at 2600 square feet. This is our last stop in Spuyten Duyvil, so up next we'll be heading north to Riverdale!

Ben's Market Owner:  James Napolitano Opened:  1975 Cooperative:  Krasdale Location:  19 Knolls Crescent, Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, NY Photographed:  March 2020 Immediately next door to yesterday's former supermarket is the only grocery store in Spuyten Duyvil (there is a CTown to the east in Marble Hill, though I'd imagine most residents of the affluent Spuyten Duyvil probably shop at Garden Gourmet or the upscale Key Food to the north in Riverdale). This 2200-square-foot store is I believe the smallest we've ever toured. It's also the smallest store I've ever seen that I believe I can accurately classify as a supermarket. The first aisle is lined with produce on the right side and meat on the left side, with a service deli-butcher-bakery at the end of the first aisle. Frozen foods line the first aisle, with dairy in the last aisle. I believe there are three aisles and two registers. Ben's Market is not only an important resource for...

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!