EDIT: This is apparently in addition to an Lidl discount grocery store that’s scheduled to move in right across the street (490 Fulton Street). When it rains, it pours!
If you live near Albee Square, your bountiful food options are getting even more bountiful. Signs just popped up in the window announcing a forthcoming Fresh Grocer store coming in “fall 2025.”
This is in addition to the adjacent Trader Joes and Target right across the street. As well as the Brooklyn Fare (Hoyt & Schermerhorn) and the NYC Fresh Market (Flatbush & Myrtle) just a few short blocks away.
So, what can we expect from this new grocery store? More high prices, from what I’ve been reading:
The Fresh Grocer is a high-end grocery store chain with 17 locations in Pennsylvania, US. The store prides itself on providing high-quality FDA approved products to shoppers, despite being on the higher end of the price spectrum. The Fresh Grocer offers a wide variety of products that cater to the needs of every shopper, with a focus on quality over quantity.
It sounds like The Fresh Grocer is more in line with Brooklyn Fare than more traditional chains like Key Foods and Pathmark. Which, I guess, is fine. I supposed that’s to be expected, given the prime location.
Speaking of “prime location,” OGs will remember when this spot was a Game Stop, until that location moved further down Fulton Street in 2017.
If that photograph feels wild to you, do yourself a favor and give yourself a tour of the neighorhood on Google Maps, and then travel back in time.
I highly suggest the view from Flatbush before any of the highrises were built. It’s amazing how much this neighborhood has changed since the 2003 re-zoning.
Aaaannnnyway, groceries.
