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Citarella Gourmet Market Owner:  Joe Gurrera Opened:  1983 (under current ownership) Cooperative:  none Location:  2135 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  April 2019 Contributor: Laura E. Our look today at the original Citarella, a seafood market that expanded into a gourmet market, is brought to us by contributor Laura E.! Okay, seafood, gourmet market, and... houseplants. Today, Citarella has eight grocery store locations and a few assorted liquor stores. I've actually visited one of their other locations, which we will see on the blog in a while. But although the store has expanded to gourmet groceries, and bakery, and so on, the centerpiece remains the seafood: I love this picture that really shows you how huge the seafood department is! (So much so, of course, that it became the graphic for this store group. Save the best for last, right?) That's about all for the southern half of Manhattan, we're contin...

Sunac Fancy Food Owner:  Hyun Moon Shin Opened:  2012 Cooperative:  none Location:  765 6th Ave, Chelsea, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  May 2019 Today's snapshot is a natural food store/oversized bodega with prepared foods, produce, a deli, and basic grocery and dairy items. It's part of a chain that also includes four other Sunac stores, a Sun Sweet Fresh Market , and two Dali Markets which are more in the direction of convenience stores. Check out the interior here ! This store is also directly across the street from yesterday's Fairway .

Jubilee Marketplace Owner:  Leo Y. Yoo Opened: 1999 Cooperative:  none Location:  99 John St, Financial District, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  March 2019 Contributor:  Will T. Our contributor Will brings us a look at the Jubilee Marketplace on John Street! There's another Jubilee on Riverside Dr, which I've been to and it's really nice. And this one looks pretty beautiful too. Jubilee is an upscale market leaning towards perishables but still a full supermarket. To my knowledge, it's not a member of any cooperative, though I do believe the Riverside location shares decor with some Foodtown stores.

Our next group of stores will take us the next week or so and will have us returning to Manhattan! I should note that we've  already seen many stores  in Manhattan, and the other thing that people who are familiar with New York City will notice: my "southern Manhattan" is more accurately the southern half, i.e. everything south of Harlem. We'll more specifically be covering stores in the Financial District,  Chelsea ,  Lenox Hill , and the Upper West Side. We start tomorrow right here on The Independent Edition!