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ALDI - Brooklyn, NY (Fort Greene)

ALDI Opened:  November 6, 2025 Owner:  ALDI Sud Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  625 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: November 12, 2025 ALDI has opened its latest New York City store, here on the border of Downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene (Google tells me that this store is just barely in a western corner of Fort Greene). This store is located in a new-construction development, so you can see retail spaces to either side of the ALDI are not yet filled and are still under construction. When you enter through that front door, you walk down a hallway to get into the supermarket, which is set back from the road a bit. The store is around 15,000 square feet, making it roughly typical in size for an ALDI. It's quite a bit smaller than the new LIDL just about four blocks west, though. This store is also within an easy walk of a Whole Foods (previously one of the 365 small-format stores), a Stop & Shop (previously Pathmark), a gourmet-fo...
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Dumbo Market - Long Island City, NY

Dumbo Market Opened: November 7, 2025 Owner:  Mohammed Mujalli Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  2-57 50th Ave, Long Island City, NY Photographed:  November 12, 2025 Welcome to Long Island City's newest supermarket! This 13,000 square foot Dumbo Market opened earlier this month in a newly-built mixed-use development in the booming neighborhood. It's the third Dumbo Market location in New York City, joining two Brooklyn locations in Dumbo and Boerum Hill, although the owners also own Urban Market stores in New York City and Hoboken . See the store in progress here . As I mention on that post, it was initially reported that this store would replace the older Urban Market location diagonally across the street, which is owned by the same family, but both stores seem to be fully functional and here to stay, at least for now. (It's always possible the Urban Market will wind down its operations over time.) But this Dumbo Market is a bra...

Update: ShopRite - Livingston, NJ

ShopRite Opened:  1960s Owner: Robert Sumas / Village Super Market Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  483 S Livingston Ave, Livingston, NJ Photographed:  November 5, 2025 We are returning to the ShopRite of Livingston to check out some updates to the store! (See my last Livingston update here .) Village Super Market, the owner of this ShopRite, has greatly expanded the kosher selection at the store. Nearly half of Livingston's population is Jewish, but there's no dedicated kosher supermarket in town -- although nearby West Orange has one . This ShopRite has long had a dedicated kosher aisle and kosher deli, but the selection has been expanded into part of the front-end. The large floral department has been downsized and moved over to accommodate a much larger kosher area on the front end, with frozen and dairy cases along with prepared foods in grab-and-go containers.  This major expansion of the kosher selection comes as ...