America's Food Basket Opened: November 2025 Owner: unknown Previous Tenants: Bohack (1960s-early 1970s) > Key Food (open by 1977, closed after 1992) > Rite Aid (closed 2023) Cooperative: America's Food Basket Location: 4102 Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: December 1, 2025 It's time to return to the America's Food Basket at 4102 Chuch Ave in East Flatbush, which has just opened! I'm unclear exactly when -- it's a very soft opening, with the official grand opening still coming soon. The store was most recently a Rite Aid, but before that was a Bohack supermarket back in the 1960s, later becoming a Key Food. The building is about 10,000 square feet, but AFB has added around another 2500 square feet to the right side of the building by expanding into the parking lot. That section is now the produce department and the seafood department. It's about double the size of the Associated (formerly a Shop Fair ) right across the street. When I visite...
CTown Supermarkets Opened: November 2025 Owner: unknown Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: Krasdale Location: 423 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY Photographed: November 29, 2025 It's not too often that we see brand-new CTowns opening here in the city, although there are a lot of them across all five boroughs. In fact, CTown is the second-most common supermarket brand in the city, behind only Key Food. Key Food Stores is the market leader in New York City by sales volume, and Krasdale, the cooperative that represents CTown and Bravo stores, is #2. Krasdale has just opened a brand-new, 13,000 square foot CTown in Mott Haven, a waterfront neighborhood in the southwestern Bronx. This store is at Grand Concourse and 144th, removed from the main business district of Mott Haven along busy 138th Street, but it's right at Hostos Community College, and just blocks from Lincoln Hospital. So there's still plenty of traffic through this area, which is booming with residen...