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Golden Farms Supermarket Owner:  Pedro Goico Opened: 2015 Cooperative:  Key Food Location: 101-76 77th St, Ozone Park, Queens, NY Photographed:  December 2018 For lovers of new, beautiful supermarkets, good news: the rest of our Ozone Park - Howard Beach - ENY group will be new, beautiful supermarkets (except for one!). This gorgeous store starts off our trend, opening in 2015 in a 20,000 square foot former Associated  that had been gut-renovated. The owner, Pedro Goico, also owns multiple other stores under several different banners, including a brand-new Golden Farms in a former ShopRite in Philadelphia. While I admittedly haven't been to the Philadelphia location, it would be hard to be more beautiful than this location. Featuring a very upscale combination of exposed brick, bright colors, and dark fixtures, ceiling, and floor, this is a major supermarket anchor for Ozone Park. Looking towards the front wall, which is lined with huge wi...

Ozone Park Supermarket Owner:  unknown Opened:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  79-18 101st Ave, Ozone Park, Queens, NY Photographed:  December 2018 This small corner grocer with a halal butcher is one of five in a four-block length of 101st Ave. Ozone Park has a very large population of Middle Eastern and South Asian residents, necessitating halal meat selections. There were simply too many to photograph in such a short distance, so if you'd like to explore the others, you can see Dubai Supermarket , Mannan Halal Supermarket , Shahjalal Supermarket & Halal Meat , and Deshi Bazar . On the opposite corner from Mannan is a large Golden Farms Supermarket, which we'll tour up next right here on The Independent Edition!

Milk Farm Supermarket Owner:  Ao Xin Zhou Supermarket Inc. Opened:  2004; 2013 under current ownership Cooperative:  Krasdale Location:  88-13 Liberty Ave, Ozone Park, Queens, NY Photographed:  December 2019 Funny that I've been through this part of Queens twice, December 2018 and December 2019. Both days were bitterly cold, and on both days, by the time I got to this area, it's pitch black night outside. So even though I was at this store at hardly 5:00pm, it already looked like midnight. For this particular store, the produce lines the first, double-wide aisle. Dairy and frozen line the back wall, with meats in the last aisle. Deli is on the side wall in the front corner. At only 4800 square feet, this grocery store manages to pack in a huge selection. The store, however, is not exactly spacious. It is very clean though. In addition to basic groceries, the store has a fairly large selection of nonfoods items. Frozen and dairy...

Our next group of neighborhoods is just to the west of what we saw in southern Jamaica. We're heading into what might be considered central Ozone Park, then into Howard Beach, a relatively isolated mostly residential neighborhood of southwestern Queens, and finally right over the border into Brooklyn for East New York!