Bay Ridge’s newest addition to the supermarket family, Key Food, is expected to come online within a matter of weeks – according to Councilman Vincent Gentile, who gave Community Board 10 an appraisal of what Bay Ridge’s supermarket landscape would look like in the coming year.
Aside from the new northern Bay Ridge Key Food slated to open on the site of the old Harry’s for the Home on 69th street between Ridge blvd and 3rd avenue, marketing in Bay Ridge will include the much talked about Walgreen’s Pharmacy (formerly Key Food of 93rd st); a 9000 sq ft. addition to Foodtown supermarket; and a Bay Ridge food co-op.

According to the Brooklyn Eagle, rumors floating around the ‘gossip circuit’ about a Fairway supermarket moving into the 4th avenue Staples ‘isn’t going to happen’ – reports one member of Community Board 10.

Lucky for us, however, a ’supermarket task force’ has been established by our own State Senator Marty Golden to establish a ‘wish list,’ (or “shopping list” maybe?) of things they will ask Walgreens to carry beyond their pharmaceuticals to make up for the closing of the Key Food that no one ever saw coming – except those on the ‘gossip circuit’ of course.

According to the Eagle, Councilman Gentile said: Foodtown is still working things out with the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals for its planned 9,000-square-foot expansion. There is a zoning issue involved.”

Foodtown’s owners, PSK Supermarkets, purchased the former Loft and Short Ribs restaurant building at the corner of Third Avenue and 91st Street last year for around 1.5 million dollars.